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