Loader Tutorial Set Up

Requirements Java 7 Eclipse IvyIDE plugin Git Optional: Ant Maven

Initialize a Git Repository Folder If you haven’t used Git before you should create a folder on your drive and run the command: git init. This is where you want to clone your repositories from GitHub.

First Steps Clone the lexevs repository from GItHub: Command line: git clone

Checkout Stable Branch Navigate to lexevs folder Execute git checkout at command line: git checkout v6.3.0

Install and Configure IDE Download and install Eclipse: Install IvyIDE Follow the directions under the Update Site heading here: wnload.html

Pull LexEVS into Eclipse Right click on any white space in the package explorer tab Select “Import” From the resulting window open the Git folder and select “Projects from Git” Click next and select “Existing Local Repositories”

Pull LexEVS into Eclipse Click next If lexevs does not appear in the list click “add” button and browse to the lexevs folder that resulted from the command line clone of the GitHub repository. Select and click next.

Pull LexEVS into Eclipse Leave the settings at “Import Existing Eclipse Projects” Click next and select all if not already selected. You should be able to click “Finish” at this point.

Configure Ivy and Resolve Compilation Issues Navigate to Preferences menu and select Ivy. Select “Settings” Under the first text entry window click “workspace” button Browse to the lbPackager project and select the ivysettings.xml file Click on the Ok button

Build LexEVS You must build LexEVS in order to have some of the model classes created -- otherwise projects won’t compile. Navigate to lbPackager and select build.xml. Right click and select Run As -> Ant Build.

Build LexEVS If you wait for all Ivy resolutions and build tasks to complete you should have a clean install. You may have to re-initialize project specific Ivy settings if compilation errors persist: Right click on each problem project (Those with x or !). Select Ivy->Reload Settings

Import the Loader Tutorial Project Clone the LoaderTutorial project to your local repository and do so outside the lexevs directory. (Should be your local repository root.) git clone t t Import into eclipse as detailed above You may have to point ivy to the packager project.