Development Environment

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WDB has been developed to be as Eclipse-friendly as possible. The following is a preliminary recipe as to how you can set up Eclipse for WDB (on a Linux environment).

To set up the basic development environment used for WDB:

• Visit http://www.eclipse.org to download and install Eclipse.
  • Make sure to grab the Eclipse IDE for C/C++ developers
• Install the plugins used for WDB development
  • Help → Software Updates → Find and Install
  • Import the download sites for Eclipse
  • Install the following features (don't forget “Select Required”)
    • Data Tools Platform SQL Development Tools (Europa Discovery Site)
    • Data Tools Platform Enablement (Europa Discovery Site)
    • Autotools (Sourceware)
    • ShellEd (Chase Technology)
    • Subclipse (Subclipse update site)
  • Download XMLBuddy and follow the instructions to install (unzip file to eclipse/plugins/)

You should now have a fully functional development environment for developing on WDB.

To download WDB using Eclipse:

• File → New → Project → SVN
• Use the repository location https://svn.met.no/wdbSystem and select wdb/trunk
• Using the project wizard to configure, select C++ Autotools project