Книга: Embedded Linux development using Eclipse

7.1 Installing the PDE

7.1 Installing the PDE

PDE itself is of course a collection of plug-ins that must be downloaded and installed into Eclipse just as we did with the DSDP in the last chapter. PDE depends on the Eclipse Java Development Toolkit, JDT. That, too, needs to be downloaded and installed. The JDT in turn depends upon the Java Development Kit (JDK) from Sun Microsystems.

The update site for the Plug-in Development Environment is part of the Ganymede update bundle under Java Development. Just select Eclipse Plug-in Development Environment and click Install…. JDT and any other plug-ins that PDE requires will be installed.

There does appear to be a “gotcha” that wasn’t in Eclipse 3.3. PDE does not recognize that it needs the Eclipse SDK and Eclipse Platform SDK in order to function, so you have to explicitly install those from the Eclipse Project Update Site.

The final step in installing PDE is to install the Java Development Kit from Sun Microsystems. Go to http://java.sun.com/javase/downloads/index.jsp and Download?JDK 6 Update 7. On the next page select Linux as your platform (unless you’re running Eclipse under Windows), agree to the Java SE Development Kit 6 License Agreement, and click Continue. You are then presented with a choice of downloading a self-extracting binary or a self-extracting RPM. I chose the binary.

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