{"id":754,"date":"2013-06-21T18:55:11","date_gmt":"2013-06-21T16:55:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pellissier.co.za\/hermien\/?p=754"},"modified":"2013-06-21T18:55:11","modified_gmt":"2013-06-21T16:55:11","slug":"another-source-adventure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pellissier.co.za\/hermien\/?p=754","title":{"rendered":"Another Source Adventure"},"content":{"rendered":"

In the previous blog post<\/a>, some areas remained unexplored. Specifically, how to observe the values of variables with versions of the IDE that don’t include debug information. In this guest post by Robert Bracko<\/em>\u00a0(robert [dot] bracko [at] vip [dot] hr), he describes his experiences with building the NetBeans IDE source code to overcome this obstacle.<\/p>\n

Step 1: Building NB sources<\/b>
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  1. Create local disk folder\u00a0C:\\nb6_9_1<\/tt>\n

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  2. Download NB platform sources (netbeans-6.9.1-201007282301-<\/tt><\/tt>src.zip<\/tt>) and extract it into\u00a0C:\\nb6_9_1\\src<\/tt>\n

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  3. Download NB binaries (netbeans-6.9.1-201007282301-<\/tt><\/tt>ml-javase.zip<\/tt>). This step is necessary for getting the appropriate Ant builder. Extract only\u00a0netbeans\\java\\ant<\/tt>\u00a0into\u00a0C:\\nb6_9_1\\ant<\/tt>. Result of that operation should be that\u00a0C:\\nb6_9_1\\ant\u00a0<\/tt>contains ant subfolders\u00a0bin<\/tt>,\u00a0etc<\/tt>,\u00a0extra<\/tt>,\u00a0lib<\/tt>…\n

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  4. Create batch file (buildenv.bat<\/tt>) inside the folder\u00a0C:\\nb6_9_1<\/tt>. Put the following lines (adjust\u00a0<\/span>JAVA_HOME to match<\/span>\u00a0your Java JDK path!):
    \nset JAVA_HOME=C:\\Program Files\\Java\\jdk1.6.0_12
    \nset ANT_HOME=C:\\nb6_9_1\\ant
    \nset PATH=%JAVA_HOME%\\bin;%ANT_HOME%\\bin;%PATH%
    \nset ANT_OPTS=-Xmx1g<\/p>\n

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  5. Open command shell and change directory to\u00a0C:\\nb6_9_1<\/tt>. Execute\u00a0buildenv.bat<\/tt>. Then change directory to NetBeans source which is to be built (C:\\nb6_9_1\\src<\/tt>). Execute ant (without any cmd-line params). Please be patient; depending on your machine power, the process can take up to hour!
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    As a result of above-described procedure, new folder is created:\u00a0C:\\nb6_9_1\\src\\nbbuild<\/tt>.<\/p>\n

    General notes
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