[Outdated] Eclipse Portable 3.6 Development Test 1

Link is broken for Benawesome.

When will it become an official app...
Seriously I cant see whats wrong with it...

But I have a small problem d:

I have no idea what to do on that page you linked me to. I am completely confused on wha URl i should enter into the eclipse package thing X]

I installed
Eclipse Portable 3.5.1 Development Test 6
and
MinGW Portable Development Test 5

But could not compile anything because nothing under toolchains!!

I do lunch CommandPromptPortable.exe and MSYSPortable.exe before Eclipse
Also EclipsePortable.ini is in the same directory with EclipsePortable.exe

What else I need to do?

Thanks

When I select build All it says:(Cannot run program "make": Launching failed)

The problem is it does not know where MinGW is?

Sometimes when I go to another PC, I get the error "Error: Workspace in use or cannot be created, choose a different one." (Title: "Workspace Unavailable")

I simply click OK and then change the driveletter in the next window. But this isn't supposed to happen in a portable version of Eclipse, is it?

PS. I know you'll probably need more info, but I don't know what, so just ask. I'll hopefully remember to come here again in a day or two (or whenever this happens again).

can't you redirect the folder using one of these methods:
-->from nsis docs:
- http://nsis.sourceforge.net/Setting_Environment_Variables_to_Active_Inst...
- http://nsis.sourceforge.net/Setting_Environment_Variables
- http://nsis.sourceforge.net/Setting_Environment_Variables_Examples

-->from portableapps.com forum:
- https://portableapps.com/node/21978#comment-137802
- https://portableapps.com/node/17637

if you can't, say why and i will try to find other way.

Marlus Lopes
thanks your atention and sorry for my bad english.

Maybe you should submit a bug for Subversive to make changes for it so it can be portable to?

Subversive is the one availible in the Eclipse update manager so some users might install that to.

It is my most used app after all

Are you going to realease 3.5.2 as a development test?
Or are you waiting for something?
Just wondering.

I have a portable eclipse by writing a little .bat file (on Windows). The downside is that a console window remains open while Eclipse is running, but it's not a big deal for me. Somehow compiling bat to exe by using tools available in the internet won't work.

Assume I have a development directory on my USB drive, with the following subdirectories:
eclipse (you know what)
workspace (workspace)
jdk6 (copied from a default installation on windows)
android-sdk-windows (if you want to develop Android apps)

Here is the bat:

@SET CLASSPATH=.
@SET JAVA_HOME=%~d0\development\jdk6
@SET PATH=%~d0\development\jdk6\bin\;%~d0\development\android-sdk-windows\tools\;%PATH%
@%~d0\development\eclipse\eclipse.exe -vm "%~d0\development\jdk6\jre\bin\javaw.exe" -data "%~d0\development\workspace"

Works great, except the path to android sdk inside eclipse is absolute so if your drive letter changes you have to adjust it. Also, once run, adb.exe (part of Android sdk) remains in memory until terminated. While running you won't be able to safely remove the usb drive (windows will complain).

10 days have passed...
Are you trying to get it to become official or something?

EDIT: I am still wondering if there are any plans to have an official Portable JDK to use with Eclipse.
By the way, Gluxon are you planning to release Eclipse 3.5.2 Portable? (I Know you can use the Eclipse built-in updater but its painfully slow sometimes especially on some of my friends usb drives.

Least I'm not seeing it, will you be adding the ability to change the default workspace? I appoligze if it's already there, but all My attempts at changing it have failed.

I use Eclipse PHP along side XAMPP, and it's annoying to have to recreate my projects everytime I start EP because it's defaulting to the default location. Otherwise I'd have to copy my code every time, which can take forever sometimes, unfortunatly.

(Yes, I could change the XAMPP root dir, but in all truth, I'd rather the ability to change workspaces).

I too wanted to run Eclipse Portable with the JDK as this is what is specified for Android development, which I want to try. As I'm new to Eclipse this post will probably seem naive but I thought it worthwhile recording what I'd done.

I've tried a slightly different route to the posts above. I was prompted by the following page:

http://www.avajava.com/tutorials/lessons/how-do-i-view-and-debug-jdk-sou...

This showed how, with Eclipse set up with the default JRE, when you click/F3 in the Java editor on a standard class such as String you get a Class File Editor window saying " source not found". To change this it suggests you switch Eclipse to using the JDK as follows. Go to Window → Preferences → Java → Installed JREs. Then, assuming the that JDK isn't on the list of installed JREs, use the search button to point Eclipse at the JDK directory and the JRE in the JDK is found. It can then be chosen from the list of installed JREs.

I didn't have JDK on my computer so downloaded it directly to my USB drive and installed it there. I'm hoping the JRE on my C: drive hasn't been affected.

I then found that previously created projects still used the Common Files JRE, but newly created projects used the JDK version of the JRE and now click/F3 on String gives the class source.

I'm hoping that I now have Eclipse installed with the JDK and I can go on to run the Android plug-in.

We shall see.

Shortly after posting that, I got the 'Invalid Workspace' error mentioned above. With that, I was able to specify my XAMPP Dir as the default workspace, and it seems to be working thus far. I did have one instance where it pulled the same error on the XAMPP dir.

Anyways, Thank You. I'll keep digging as I can to try and see if I can figure out what I'm ultimately not getting right.

Edit: Sorry, Wasn't Logged In So It Didn't Post Under The Original Sub-Thread.

I first installed portable Java JRE.

I got eclipse portable C/C++ from here:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/eclipseportable/

Then installed plugins for Java:
Help -> Install New Software... -> Work with: (hit the drop down arrow) -> Galileo - http://download.eclipse.org/releases/galileo -> Then selected Java and C/C++ under Programming Languages -> Next, etc
Then Help -> Check for Updates for eclipse platform updates

As for subclipse, as you've said the developers need to make it portable, so go here:
http://subclipse.tigris.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=1095

Create an account, but since you have 10 votes to cast on all of the bugs on the site, cast all 10 on this bug... (you can redistribute them later if you want)

Eclipse portable doesn't current detect MinGW portable.
The new project window doesn't display it as a choice.

You will need to figure out how to make the cdt detect it and use it, I'm not sure how it searches for MinGW.
You might also want to add MSYS to the path, that will make Eclipse use make from MSYS which wont require changing Eclipse's to use mingw32-make in its settings.

Gluxon, please be sure you also handle Eclipse's secure storage. used to store stuff like passwords for use in various Eclipse plugins.

By default it uses Windows API to generate a password for it linked to the current user, I don't think this will work well with portability...

And also it stores the secure storage in the root of the user dir, which is also not portable, Eclipse provides a cmd argument to change this.

Eclipse can be made in portable easily, i follow this thread
https://portableapps.com/node/929

extract the official zip release, edit the eclipse.ini to point to JDK folder,change the workspace to relative path, done.

So,i want to know, what different of gluxon's release?
Is it somethings i miss or the method on this thread [https://portableapps.com/node/929] is outdated and not fully portable?

You know, Eclipse might work better with a relative path workspace.
It just needs a bit testing to make sure there are no plugins that have issues with it.
Although considering Eclipse's design, I doubt so.

It would be nice if the SSH2 home (Preferences -> General -> Network Connections) by default is set to a directory inside the Data directory.

Where does each plugin store it's path? I'd like to experiment with those settings.

I have found a small issue sometimes, Eclipse decides to create a "opt" directory at the root of the portable drive, although this doesn't diturb portability since it is saved in the portable drive, you might want to check it out. (move it into data or delete it)

Also think you can add an EclipsePortable.ini option to specifiy directoies/files that the launcher should handle, that some Eclipse plugins (Mostly third-party ones) use to store settings outside the workspace?

EDIT: Oh yes, I updated my Eclipse Portable to 3.6.1 (Aka Service Release 1) via the Eclipse built-in updater.