usr/ports/java/eclipse-cdt

[Brad Keifenheim]

I'll ping those mailing lists to see if I can stir anything up-- thanks for the recommendations.

Funny you should mention X11 forwarding, because that's what I'm trying to get going. I setup Cygwin on Windows and run the Cygwin X server. I'm using "ssh -X <FreeBSD hostname>" to start a console, and then I launch eclipse in FreeBSD "eclipse &". This would be ideal for me because I do not have space for a full desktop on my FreeBSD server, yet I'm required to run the IDE locally with the application in order to work around the thread problems with gdbserver.

Cheers,

Brad

-----Original Message-----
From: kron [mailto:kron24 at gmail.com] 
Sent: Thursday, July 11, 2013 2:51 AM
To: Brad Keifenheim
Cc: ports at FreeBSD.org
Subject: Re: usr/ports/java/eclipse-cdt

On 2013/07/10 20:33, Brad Keifenheim wrote:
> Hi Oli,
> 
> Thanks for the quick reply. I have tried the eclipse-devel port as you 
> suggested and, unfortunately, still do not have a functional setup.

Sorry, my approach seems to be too limited for CDT.

You may get some advice on freebsd-eclipse@ or freebsd-java@ but the eclipse port is without a maintainer so chances are somewhat doubtful.

I feel your pain. I was in a similar situation some time ago, waiting for a must-have upgrade of eclipse.
In the meantime I just used a VirtualBox virtual machine with Linux for eclipsing. Moved the whole project to the VM a run "ssh -X virtlnx eclipse"
instead of plain "eclipse". Performance was OK, the only drawback was managing project files from CLI:
they weren't local, one had to remember to ssh to the VM.

A side note: I've been a FreeBSD and Linux user for about 15 years and I prefer FreeBSD for most tasks. However, if my work was 99% about eclipsing I would use Linux for my workstation. Eclipse's development seems to ignore BSDs and FreeBSD's ports are often too delayed. To be fair to our porters, it isn't an easy work and I just admire their bravery. Some time ago I tried to update the eclipse port myself and failed. Monumentally :-) I'm happy that my eclipsing is just a minor part of my work and I don't need special plugins like CDT.

BR,
Oli