BuildingNetBeans6.0
After checking out the NB sources, its time to build it and modify it. This document will ensure you that, you build NB IDE yourself, efficiently and effectively.
Pre-requisites
- You must have checkout the NetBeans sources using CVS, as stated above.
- NetBeans IDE 6.0, if you don't have, you can get it from http://netbeans.org.
- You must have made atleast a single project using this IDE.
How To Build Sources
- Steps
- 1. After you have checkout the sources.
- 2. Open the project node of NetBeans Build System as shown below.
- 3. Right-click the project node and select Build IDE (no-zip) option.
File:Bootstrapping and retrieving data from the log file...
File:Arguments passed to the Ant build-scripts for the IDE...
View Development Version
- NetBeans loading up modules, checking dependencies, configuring the system, connecting to the JDK, JRE, etc.
- Have a look at the NetBeans Startup Window, similar to the one seen when the NetBeans IDE starts.
