Compiling Kalypso

As Kalypso is quite a big eclipse project (>100 eclipse plug-ins) and contains lots of ant-generated code, compiling Kalypso is not totally straight forward. To be more precise, after downloading the kalypso sources, the first build-run will most probably not work.

This page contains some tips on how to solve the common compile problems.

Problem View

The Problem View of eclipse gives an overview of (compile-)errors of the workspace. However, the view is preconfigured to show all errors in the workspace. As you will probably have hundreds of them, this will not help much. We recommend to:

• reconfigure the problem view to show problems of selected resources (Menu Configure Contents... of the view)
• Group the problems by their java problem type (Menu Group by of the view).

Someone else's problems

Error message: The project was not built since it depends on KalypsoYYYY, which has build path errors.

The cause for the problems in this plug-in is elsewhere! Look at the error messages of project 'KalypsoYYYY'.

Missing source folder

Error message: Project 'KalypsoXXXX' is missing required source folder: 'srcSomething'.

This happens often after checking out the sources. Refreshing this plug-in helps in most cases. If not, Project-Clean the project and have a look at the console output.