Contributors set-up advices (which IDE to use, how to configure it ?)

[sbernard31]

Hi,

I try to edit some Bouncy Castle code (java).

For now I just want to experiment a little bit some idea but maybe that will lead to some code contribution.

To code the project for which I need bc-java, I use Eclipse (and more generally I use Eclipse for java coding).

So my first try was to try to import bc-java in eclipse.

(Each try, I start with fresh git clone : git clone [email protected]:bcgit/bc-java.git)

First try : Use Eclipse Gradle support (Buildship plugin)

Then I install Buildship in eclipse.

Then build with gradle

gradlew clean build
# ==>  test failed because of  java.io.FileNotFoundException, so I did
gradlew clean assemble -x test

The I try to import that in eclipse with Import Existing Gradle project but project doesn't compile. (mainly about symbol which can not be resolved, e.g : Arrays cannot be resolved to a type)

Second Try : Generate Eclipse project files via Gradle

This seems to be a deprecated way but I try it anyway :

gradlew eclipse

.project, .classpath and other eclipse files are generated but when I tried to import it in eclipse I get again compilation errors. (same kind of compilation issue)

Third Try : Code in Eclipse with compilation problem (or a text editor) then publish to maven locally

This is clearly a not so convenient solution but the only one I succeed to make it works for now.

To publish to maven

gradle -Pjava8 publishToMavenLocal -x test

Then add the SNAPSHOT dependencies to your project.

Strangely I need to add bcprov-jdk18on and bctls-jdk18on dependency where with maven central release I only need bctls-jdk18on

So even with that not to convenient method, there is maybe something which smell not so good.

Any recommendation ?