Install the Eclipse with Spoofax Plugin Bundle¶
Install an Eclipse instance with the latest stable release of the Spoofax plugin pre-installed for your platform:
Eclipse bundle including the Spoofax plugin with embedded Java Runtime Environment (JRE) (recommended):
macOS Intel (64-bit)
Linux x64 (64-bit)
Windows x64 (64-bit)
Windows x86 (32-bit)
Eclipse bundle including the Spoofax plugin (no embedded JRE):
macOS Intel (64-bit)
Linux x64 (64-bit)
Windows x64 (64-bit)
Windows x86 (32-bit)
Troubleshooting¶
Unresolveable build extension: Plugin¶
When building a Spoofax project, if you get this error:
Could not download sources or javadoc
Could not read maven project
Some problems were encountered while processing the POMs:
[ERROR] Unresolveable build extension: Plugin
Could not find artifact com.sun:tools.jar:1.8.0 at specified path Spoofax.app/jre/Contents/Home/../lib/tools.jar
Then you have used the embedded JRE on an ARM macOS, which is not supported. See how to install Spoofax on macOS M1/M2 for details.
macOS: "Eclipse" cannot be opened because the developer could not be verified¶
macOS puts unverified binaries in 'quarantine' and disallows their execution. To remove the com.apple.quarantine attribute, do:
xattr -rc Eclipse.app
Eclipse does not start, or complains about missing Java¶
Download the Eclipse bundle with embedded JRE. Otherwise, ensure you have a distribution of Java installed. Then in eclipse.ini, add a -vm line at the top of the file, followed by the path to the Java installation. For example, with SDKMan! on macOS:
-vm
/Users/myusername/.sdkman/candidates/java/current/lib/jli/libjli.dylib
Created: September 15, 2023