Eclipse os x location of .link files how to#
If you’re unsure about how to create the link file, have a look at this video:ħ. In this folder, create a link file named Checkstyle.link (with your favourite text editor) with the following content ( NB! Notice the front slashes, even in Windows): path=c:/eclipse-plugins/Checkstyle Go to your Eclipse installation folder and add a folder called links. You only have to do this once:Įclipse -configuration c:\eclipse-plugins\Checkstyle\eclipse\configurationĦ. Start up Eclipse with the following command line to initialise all the p2 stuff in the external folder. NB! This step is only necessary since Eclipse 3.6 (Helios), but will work on previous versions as well and should make sure you’re covered in case you upgrade to 3.6 – (thanks Rab).ĥ. eclipseextension and copy it into the same folder). (Alternatively, download the file, rename it to. eclipseextension (note the dot in front) in the folder c:\eclipse-plugins\Checkstyle\eclipse, with the following content: id= If you’re unsure about how to create the folder structure, have a look at this video:Ĥ. Extract the Checkstyle zip under the folder c:\eclipse-plugins\Checkstyle\eclipse (notice the eclipse folder underneath Checkstyle’s folder). I use C:\eclipse-plugins for all my plugins but you can place them anywhere and even in totally different locations.ģ.
Create a folder where you’ll be storing all your plugins. First, download the plugins ( Checkstyle download), preferably in zip format for local install (ie. I’ll be using a technique shared in this post (by Michael Scharf) to make things work smoothly with p2, Eclipse’s new provisioning system.ġ.
To see how to use link files, I’ll add the popular code checker Checkstyle to Eclipse. How to set up link files to share plugins
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