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Eclipse and Blackwood
This will be a tutorial on how to setup the Eclipse IDE with the intent of using it for Dr. Slator's Blackwood project.
Download Eclipse
Eclipse can be found online here. In particular, a user would want to download Eclipse Classic for their particular platform. This tutorial will target Eclipse 4.2.2 (Juno).
After downloading, you will need to extract Eclipse in a directory of your choice.
Run Eclipse.exe, and the Eclipse program will start. You will be asked to choose a workspace. A workspace is simply where Eclipse stores the project files, pick a sensible place, the default is acceptable.
Eclipse and SVN
Blackwood stores its source code in an Subversion (SVN) repository. By default, Eclipse does not support SVN, so you will need to install a plugin to use SVN. These instructions can be found here.
Eclipse will restart a few times during this install process.
Creating a new Project
Once SVN is installed and configured, you will want to create a new project. This can be found in File → New → Other…
From the New Project Wizard, you will want to select SVN → Project from SVN.
You will be prompted to enter the URL of the repository:
https://lions.cs.ndsu.nodak.edu/svn/blackwood/branches/CS345_Spring201X
where X is the year of the semester.
Students can check out code from this repository without authentication. If you wish to commit code, you will need credentials. Contact labsupport@cs.ndsu.edu to request access.
Eclipse will then allow you to check out a specific revision. For most purposes, you wish to check out the Head Revision.