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Bnd/Bndtools. Tooling to build OSGi bundles including Eclipse, Maven, and Gradle plugins.
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Can bnd Gradle plugin (biz.aQute.bnd.gradle/) help build Eclipse plugins with gradle? #1381

Closed paulvi closed 8 years ago

paulvi commented 8 years ago

There's open-source Editor for .gradle files for Eclipse https://github.com/Nodeclipse/GradleEditor that I'd like to build with gradle.

Can bnd Gradle plugin (biz.aQute.bnd.gradle/) help build Eclipse plugins?

ref https://github.com/Nodeclipse/GradleEditor/issues/1

docs https://github.com/bndtools/bnd/tree/master/biz.aQute.bnd.gradle#gradle-plugin-for-non-workspace-builds

paulvi commented 8 years ago

UPDATE Should be looking at https://github.com/bndtools/bndtools/blob/master/build.gradle first, but it is still not clear how to add gradle build for an Eclipse plugin project.

bjhargrave commented 8 years ago

Yes, you can build eclipse plugins with the gradle plugin since we build bndtools as you note above.

But first you must convert the Eclipse PDE project to a bnd/bndtools project and then you can build with the gradle plugin. PDE is manifest first and bnd is not.

Since there is no bug in bnd here, I am closing this issue. You can ask usage questions in the bndtools-users mail list https://github.com/bndtools/bnd#feedback.