[rbenzan]

Hello,

I’ve downloaded and installed Eclipse 3.0M4 SDK. I verified that it starts up correctly and with the Java perspective I can view my projects. When I go to install myEclipse 3.63 using the Enterprise Workbench Installer I can’t seem to provide it an ‘eclipse’ directory that it likes.

I tried the ‘eclipse-3.0M4’ directory which contains the ‘eclipse.app’ and ‘plugins’ directory as well as the ‘eclipse.app’ directory/exe to no avail.

I’m not sure what’s going on here but any help would be appreciated.

Thanks!

[Scott Anderson]

The problem is most likely that you downloaded just the Eclipse SDK, not the full version of Eclipse, including the PDE, from eclipse.org. Some of the sites distributing Eclipse don’t package it exactly the way eclipse.org does so that it’s not recognized. When you list the eclipse directory from a terminal window with ‘ls -al’ there should be a file called .eclipseproduct. Without the proper packaging, the installer can’t verify the version properly so it will refuse to install, rather than risk installing against an untested version of Eclipse.

Please download the full 3.0M4 build for Mac OS/X from eclipse.org and be absolutely sure to follow all their installation steps to the letter (ie. Safari browser, StuffIt version, etc). Once you’ve done that, MyEclipse should install just fine on it.

–Scott
MyEclipse Support

[rbenzan]

The problem turned out to be in the way I copied the unzip’ed files over to my ‘eclipse-3.0M4’ directory. Seems like Mac OSX doesn’t include the files starting with ‘.’ if you do a Select-All from the Finder GUI.

Thanks for your help.

[Scott Anderson]

Ah! Tricky! Thanks for posting the resolution as this will surely help other Mac’ers.

–Scott
MyEclipse Support

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