Building
From FreeMind
Guide for building with Eclipse
Another way
Here's what I did to get things working on Eclipse 3.3 with Windows XP:
- download the source code for whichever version you're interested in (I myself downloaded freemind-src-0.9.0_Beta_13_icon_butterfly.tar.gz )
- Create a new Java Project in Eclipse
- Extract the archive you downloaded
- Open the freemind directory in Windows (it should contain .classpath, .project, build.xml, and a whole bunch of other files and folders)
- Select all of the files and drag them onto your newly created project, in the Eclipse Package Explorer
- Select yes when it asks you if you want to overwrite
- That should do it.
A simple way for a developer of compiling FreeMind is perhaps the following.
- install Java SDK — standard development kit
- install Ant — a tool for building code using complicated make files)
- download FreeMind's source code as published in the Files section
- unpack the source code package with the extension
tar.gz
- change directory to the one where
built.xml
file resides — the build file for Ant, similar to make files for the C language - type
ant
in the command shell