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Commit 077c18ae authored by Luc Maisonobe's avatar Luc Maisonobe
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Improved building instructions from Eclipse.

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The simplest way to use Orekit with Eclipse is to follow these steps:
* unpack the distribution inside your Eclipse workspace
* import the project as an "Existing Maven Project"
Everything should be configured automatically, including the dependency
to the underlying mathematical library.
* using your operating system tools, unpack the source distribution directly
inside your Eclipse workspace. The source distribution file name has a name
of the form orekit-x.y-sources.zip where x.y is the version number. Unpacking
this zip file should create a folder of the form orekit-x.y in your workspace.
* using Eclipse, import the project by selecting in the top level "File" menu
the entry "Import..."
* in the wizard that should appear, select "Maven -> Existing Maven Projects"
* select the folder you just created in your workspace by unpacking the
source distribution. The "pom.xml" file describing the project will be
automatically selected. Click finish
The Orekit library should be configured automatically, including the dependency
to the underlying mathematical library. Note however that the tutorials
that are present in the source distribution are not automatically added by
this process (because the tutorials correspond to extra code and as such they
are not referenced in the pom.xml file).
Now you have an orekit-x.y project in you workspace, and you can create your
own application projects that will depend on the Orekit project.
You can also check everything works correctly by running the junit tests.
If you want to go further and run the tutorials, you should update the
project configuration to add them. In the Eclipse Package Explorer tab,
right-click on the orekit-x.y project and select from the conext menu
the entry "Build Path -> Configure Build Path...". Then in the wizard that
should appear, select the "Source" tab in the right pane, click the button
"Add Folder...", open the "tutorials" folder, select the two sub-folders
"java" and "resource" and click "OK". Now the projects should display the
tutorials. Note that since 9.0, you need to have an "orekit-data" folder
in your home directory in order to run the tutorials.
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