Welcome to Kotlin for Eclipse project! Some handy links:
- Kotlin Site
- Getting Started Guide
- Kotlin on Eclipse Marketplace
- Issue Tracker: File New Issue, All Open Issues
- Kotlin Blog
- Forum
- TeamCity CI build
- Follow Kotlin on Twitter
To give it a try you will need a clean installation of Eclipse Mars. The Kotlin plugin is available from the Eclipse Marketplace. The easiest way to install the Kotlin plugin is to drag-and-drop this button into a running Eclipse window:
Alternatively, you can use Help -> Eclipse Marketplace… menu, or the following update site:
https://dl.bintray.com/jetbrains/kotlin/eclipse-plugin/last/
Eclipse IDE for Eclipse Committers is the recommended way to build and develop the kotlin-eclipse project. Eclipse Neon 4.6 is used so far.
In order to start development in Eclipse:
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Install the AspectJ Eclipse plug-in for Eclipse 4.6. To install AJDT 2.2.4 use the following update site:
http://download.eclipse.org/tools/ajdt/46/dev/update -
Since Kotlin plugin contains code written in Kotlin itself, you will also need a Kotlin plugin to build the project in Eclipse. To install the Kotlin Eclipse plugin use the following update site:
https://teamcity.jetbrains.com/guestAuth/repository/download/Kotlin_EclipsePlugin/bootstrap.tcbuildtag/ -
Since Kotlin plugin uses weaving, you need to launch the project with weaving enabled. Installation of Equinox Weaving Launcher will add two additional launch configurations types for running plugin and for testing. To install the Equinox Weaving Launcher you can use the following update site:
http://download.scala-ide.org/plugins/equinox-weaving-launcher/releases/site/ -
Import plugin projects from the cloned repository into your workspace
File -> Import -> Existing Projects into Workspace -
Run the launch configuration to download the Kotlin compiler. It will be used as a bundled compiler in built plugin and as a library during development.
kotlin-bundled-compiler/Get Bundled Kotlin.launch -> Run As -> Get Bundled Kotlin -
Run another instance of Eclipse with the Kotlin plugin inside
kotlin-eclipse-ui -> Run As -> Eclipse Weaving enabled Eclipse Application
Building from the command line is also available (Note that Maven 3.0.5 is required):
cd {repository}/kotlin-bundled-compiler
ant -f get_bundled.xml
cd {repository}
mvn install
Latest stable release:
https://dl.bintray.com/jetbrains/kotlin/eclipse-plugin/last/
Any previously released version (replace :version with the version number):
https://dl.bintray.com/jetbrains/kotlin/eclipse-plugin/:version/
Nightly build:
https://teamcity.jetbrains.com/guestAuth/repository/download/Kotlin_EclipsePlugin/.lastSuccessful/
See basic developer documentation here