Building Rodin Headless
This page documents the procedure followed for building the binary packages of the Rodin platform that are distributed on SourceForge. The build is done in two steps
- Fetch the sources from Subversion and make a source archive with them.
- Build the platform headless from this set of sources using Apache Ant.
Pre Build Verifications
Before building, several checks have to be made in the sources:
- clean build all RodinCore plug-ins, so that generated files are regenerated using repository sources
- JUnit tests are OK
- versions of plug-ins, features and product obey Eclipse versioning policy
- API Tooling build against previous Rodin release produces no errors on any plug-in
- the correct Eclipse version is referenced in the p2 configuration (org.rodinp.platform/p2.inf)
- branding plug-ins display the correct Eclipse version (text information found in several about.properties/plugin.properties files)
- SVN project org.rodinp.releng is up to date, i.e. all required plug-ins are listed/processed in
- rodin-core.psf
- rodin-tests.psf
- customTargets.xml (copySources)
- export-RodinCore-src-jars.xml
- documentation is up to date for /org.rodinp.platform/html/root.html
- generated documentation matches latest wiki sources for
- /org.rodinp.keyboard/doc
- make a local test within Eclipse:
- update buildId and buildVersion in org.rodinp.releng/build.properties
- import (binary with linked content) org.eclipse.pde.build into the Eclipse workspace containing Rodin sources
- run "Build Rodin Product.launch": if everything went well, a directory "${workspace_loc}/../work/result" contains zipped archives for every platform, else errors are reported in the console.
- in particular, even though the build corrects it by itself without complaining, there should be no version fixes (see console output, item 'fixVersions')
When everything works, any changes to the sources made during this verification process are committed to the Source Forge repository (the below-mentioned Subversion revision is that of this commit).
Build Parameters
Three parameters need to be defined for each build:
- the platform version, that is the user-visible version which is displayed in About Rodin Platform. Example of versions are 1.0 and 1.0RC1.
- the Subversion revision number, which permits to know very precisely which source versions are used for the build.
- the full platform version used for provisioning. This version is made of three digits separated by dots. Example of full versions are 1.0.0 and 1.1.0.
Fetching Sources
Sources are fetched from Subversion using the script below. The script can be run on any Unix machine and takes the first two parameters described above (i.e., platform version and subversion revision). For instance, to build Rodin 1.1, the script was invoked as
fetchSources 1.1 7661
The script itself is
#!/bin/sh
#
# Fetch sources of the Rodin Platform from the Subversion repository on
# SourceForge.
#
SVNROOT=http://rodin-b-sharp.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/rodin-b-sharp
SVNURL=$SVNROOT/trunk/RodinCore
export SVNROOT SVNURL
fatal() {
echo "$@" >&2
exit 1
}
checkRevision() {
if expr "$SVNREV" : '^[0-9][0-9]*$' >/dev/null; then
: OK
else
fatal "Invalid SVN revision number: $SVNREV"
fi
}
fetchSources() {
mkdir sources || fatal "Some sources have already been checked out."
cd sources
fetchProject org.rodinp.releng
cat org.rodinp.releng/rodin-core.psf |
sed -e '\,trunk/RodinCore/,!d' \
-e 's,.*RodinCore/,,' \
-e 's/,.*//' |
while read m; do
fetchProject "$m"
done
}
fetchProject() {
m="$1"
echo "Fetching $m"
svn -q export -r "$SVNREV" "$SVNURL/$m" "$m"
}
[ $# -eq 2 ] || fatal "Usage: $0 <Rodin_version> <SVN_revision>"
VERSION="$1"
SVNREV="$2"
checkRevision
fetchSources
zip -q -r "../rodin-${VERSION}-sources.zip" *
Installing Eclipse for Headless Build
To install Eclipse for headless build, you first need to download two bundles from the Eclipse download site:
- eclipse-SDK-${VERSION}-${PLATFORM}.tar.gz
- eclipse-${VERSION}-delta-pack.zip
where VERSION is the version of Eclipse (e.g., 3.4.2) and PLATFORM specifies the host platform for the build (e.g., linux-gtk).
Once downloaded, you need to extract the first archive, and then the second archive on top of the first. You now have an Eclipse installation able to build binary distribution for all platforms supported by Eclipse.
Building the Platform
To build the platform, you just need to run the script below after possibly modifying some of the variables at the beginning of it. The meaning of the variables is
| BUILD_ID | Simple platform version (first parameter above) |
| SVNREV | Subversion revision number with an r prepended |
| VERSION | Full platform version used for provisioning (must contain $SVNREV as qualifier) |
| JAVA_HOME | Absolute path to a Java Runtime Environment |
| BUILD_BASE | Absolute path to the directory used for building. As a result of a previous step, this directory must contain a sources folder where the Rodin sources have been downloaded. |
| ECLIPSE_HOME | Absolute path to the Eclipse installation (including the delta pack) to use for building |
| PDE_BUILD | Absolute path to the PDE plug-in in your Eclipse installation. |
| BASE_OS | Operating system of the host platform |
| BASE_WS | Windowing system of the host platform |
| BASE_ARCH | Architecture of the host platform |
The build script is
#!/bin/sh
BUILD_ID=2.0
SVNREV=9964
VERSION=$BUILD_ID.r$SVNREV
JAVA_HOME=/usr/lib/jvm/java-6-sun/jre
BUILD_BASE=$HOME/Rodin/$BUILD_ID
BUILD_DIR=$BUILD_BASE/work
RELENG=$BUILD_BASE/sources/org.rodinp.releng
ECLIPSE_HOME=$HOME/eclipse-SDK-3.6.2
PDE_BUILD=$ECLIPSE_HOME/plugins/org.eclipse.pde.build_3.6.2.R36x_20110203
ANT_SCRIPT=$PDE_BUILD/scripts/productBuild/productBuild.xml
BASE_OS=linux
BASE_WS=gtk
BASE_ARCH=x86
$JAVA_HOME/bin/java \
-jar $ECLIPSE_HOME/plugins/org.eclipse.equinox.launcher_*.jar \
-application org.eclipse.ant.core.antRunner \
-buildfile $ANT_SCRIPT \
-Dbuilder=$RELENG \
-DbuildDirectory=$BUILD_DIR \
-DpluginPath=$BUILD_DIR/plugins/org.rodinp.platform \
-Dbase=$ECLIPSE_HOME \
-DbaseLocation=$ECLIPSE_HOME \
-Dbaseos=$BASE_OS \
-Dbasews=$BASE_WS \
-Dbasearch=$BASE_ARCH \
-DbuildId="$BUILD_ID" \
-DbuildVersion="$VERSION" \
-DforceContextQualifier="r$SVNREV" \
-Dconfigs="linux,gtk,x86 & win32,win32,x86 & macosx,cocoa,x86_64"
Post Build Verifications
When the build worked, the "work/result" directory contains zipped archives for all platforms. For each of them, check that:
- "rodin" binary is an executable file (for Linux and Mac)
- a directory "dropins" exists at the root (under "rodin", among "features", plugins", ...)
- in "configuration/org.eclipse.equinox.simpleconfigurator/bundles.info", plug-in "org.eclipse.equinox.p2.reconciler.dropins" is configured with auto start mode ("true" at the end of the line)
Failures must be manually corrected. Final archives shall match the above requirements.
Providing Sources
Sources must also be provided, in both these ways:
- compressed source archive, as fetched through #Fetching Sources
- archive suitable for inclusion in a target platform (see Generating source bundles for inclusion in a target platform configuration)
- SVN tag under /svnroot/rodin-b-sharp/tags/RodinCore/x.y
Last operations to perform
- Ensure that the download of the uploaded version of Rodin is here by default
- Update the main wiki page:
- http://wiki.event-b.org/index.php/Main_Page
- The image "out now" is to be changed
- The link "learn more" should point to the release notes
- The link "download now" should point to the SF repository
- The 64 bits page should be updated:
- A group for the new release is available on Bug and Feature Request trackers.
- A mail is sent on the user + announce rodin SF lists.
