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| <h1>Building plug-ins / bundles</h1> |
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| In order to build plug-ins, bundles or fragments, PDE build requires that you create a feature listing all the elements to be built. |
| In this case the feature is only used to drive the build and will not be present in the final archive nor will it force you to use update sites. |
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| A feature used to drive a plug-in build is a standard feature. What makes it different is that its build.properties file does not contain the property <tt>bin.includes</tt>. It is possible to automatically generate a feature containing the plug-ins you wish to build. This lets you build your plug-ins without requiring you to maintain a feature. |
| See the <a href="pde_feature_generating_antcommandline.htm#eclipseGenerateFeature">eclipse.generateFeature</a> task and the <a href="pde_customization.htm">Customizing a Headless Build</a> page.<br> |
| Example: |
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| build.properties: topLevelElementId = acme.build.feature |
| customTargets.xml : |
| <target name="preSetup"> |
| <eclipse.generateFeature |
| featureId="acme.build.feature" |
| buildDirectory="${buildDirectory}" |
| baseLocation="${baseLocation}" |
| productFile="${product}" |
| verify="false" |
| pluginPath="${pluginPath}" |
| configInfo="${configs}" |
| pluginList="acme.plugin.A,acme.plugin.B" |
| featureList="${featureList}" |
| includeLaunchers="false" |
| /> |
| </target> |
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| Once you have created the feature to drive the build, follow the instructions on <a href="pde_feature_build.htm">building features</a>. |
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