Re: [TF-dev] help building netbeans locales

Hi Eugen,

Actually we don't need to build entire NetBeans when we
want to build just localized jar files. I noticed that
ant in l10n/ requires just nbbuild/nbantext.jar.

I assume you already built it so you can stop building NetBeans ;-)
Instead, please download NetBeans 6.7.1.

Regards,
Masaki

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GET SOURCES:

   % hg clone http://hg.netbeans.org/release67_fixes
   % cd release67_fixes
   % hg clone http://hg.netbeans.org/release67_fixes/l10n

PREPARATION:

   % cd nbbuild
   % mkdir nbms
     Make dummy directory

BUILD JUST nbantext.jar:

   % ant

   You don't need to build entire NetBeans. When nbbuild/nbantext.jar
   is created and it starts building NetBeans modules, Ctrl+C to quit the build.
   l10n build will requires the jar file below.

	[jar] Building jar: /..../nbbuild/nbantext.jar

PREPARATION OF L10N FILES:

   % cd ../l10n

   Put your localized files into l10n/src/<lang> e.g. l10n/src/ja for Japanese.

BUILD LOCALIZED JAR FILES:

   % ant -Dlocales=<lang>

   For example ant -Dlocales=ja for Japanese

   You can find localized jar files under

   l10n/dist/

TRY IT:

   Download NetBeans 6.7.1 and install it

   Copy localized files of l10n/dist to installation directory of NetBeans 6.7.1

   % netbeans/bin/netbeans

   If your system is not set to correct locale, you can use --locale option e.g.

   % netbeans/bin/netbeans --locale zh:TW

   It's better to remove cache (e.g. ~/.netbeans/6.7/var/cache) before you start
   NetBeans when you rebuild jars.

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Masaki Katakai
Sun Microsystems K.K.
http://blogs.sun.com/katakai