Building ArgoUML from source requires around 350MB of free disk space
depending on what modules you want to build and if you want to build
the documentation or not.
The ambition is to provide a way to download and build that is
as simple and straight-forward as possible.
Currently there are two ways to do this, either the traditional way,
resulting in a file structure called the repository layout because
the directories are located as they are in the repository, or
a file structure called the Eclipse layout because it works with
Eclipse's project structure.
The recommended way is to use the Eclipse as the development environment
when developing ArgoUML.
Here is the quickest, step by step instruction to set up your
Eclipse development environment:
Download and install Eclipse.
This is if you don't already have it installed.
See
http://www.eclipse.org/downloads/.
You need the
Eclipse IDE for Java EE Developers,
Eclipse for RCP/Plug-in Developers, or
Eclipse Classic 3.3.2.
Download and install Subclipse.
This is if you don't already have it installed in your Eclipse.
See http://subclipse.tigris.org/install.html.
Download the Project Set File for the ArgoUML project
and save it on your file system.
The main file is called
argouml-core-projectset.psf
and is available at
http://argouml.tigris.org/nonav/psf/argouml-core-projectset.psf
In a new workspace, Import the Project Set File.
The project will download several Eclipse projects
and automatically build them.
If some fails to build, try to do refresh or clean.
It should work but there has been reports of problems
at first download.
Start ArgoUML using ArgoUML configuration.
Details of this can be found at
Section 2.9, “Setting up Eclipse 3”.
If you want to work without Eclipse in Windows,
the following commands will build ArgoUML from source and
run it. If you are using Unix/Linux, the equivalent commands for
your particular shell should work.
C:\Work>svn checkout http://argouml.tigris.org/svn/argouml/trunk/src http://argouml.tigris.org/svn/argouml/trunk/tools argouml --username guest
Password: (give empty password if prompted)
C:\Work>set JAVA_HOME=C:\Programs\jdkwhatever
C:\Work>cd argouml
C:\Work\argouml\src>build run
A newly compiled ArgoUML will open in a new window.
![[Note]](images/note.png) | Note |
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JDK Java5 or later is required |
If you don't understand these instructions or they don't work,
please read the rest of
the chapter for more detailed instructions on how to build ArgoUML.
