Am 13.03.2012 20:25, schrieb Robert Johnson:
All
I am trying to get to the point that I can compile and run PDFBox under Eclipse
on my Mac, and whilst this hardly seems like a difficult task, sadly I have
failed.
I am fairly new to Eclipse (I've used it for PHP mostly before now) although I
have used development environments from vim through Zend through Visual Studio
in my time so I am not an IDE idiot and I am far from a Java genius I am fluent
in C, C++, .Net, PHP, ASP(.net), RPG, COBOL. C#, VB and VB.NET, Javascript and
a few others. In short, concepts I understand, specific mouse clicks I'm no
expert in.
The full story (as best I can).
Per the instructions on the web site, I used Eclipse and did
File -> New -> Other -> SVN -> Check out projects from SVN
Create new repository location at http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/trunk
Create project using wizard& select Java Project
Allow it to get all the source.
This creates a Java Project in my Eclipse with a tree that looks like
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and this is where the wheels come off for me.
In a way, this looks a bit wrong because I have nothing in the src tree and no
folders that equate to the package (org.apache.pdfbox) but equally Eclipse
isn't complaining about it.
The web site suggests setting up a run profile for ExtractText by selecting "run as
Java Application" and then adding a new Run Profile. Unfortunately when I try that,
I can select PDFBox as the project but the Main class is never found (even though it is
clearly in ExtractText.java).
I think I have the source tree in the wrong place, becaue I think under src I
ought to have a folder org.apache.pdfbox but I do not know if I'm right, nor
what I have done to cause that not to happen.
I appreciate that I must be doing something staggeringly stupid, but I just
cannot work out what.
Can any kind soul out there help me?
Many thanks in advance
Bob Johnson
We are using maven [1] to build PDFBox. Therefore you should use a suitable
wizard. It depends on the eclipse version and the installed plugins you're
using. A possible way is
- checkout the trunk version using http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/pdfbox/trunk
- use File -> Import -> Maven -> Existing Maven project to import the source
you've checked before
- now you should have a couple of subprojects in your workspace
I didn't tried that recently so that I might miss some details. Feel free to
come back to get some more answers.
BR
Andreas Lehmkühler
[1] http://maven.apache.org
