[ome-devel] Building OMERO from source

[Josh Moore]

Hi Ankur,

the entire history is multiple GBs, but you won't need all of that for building from source. Instead you could extract just the latest revision:

  git archive --remote git://openmicroscopy.org/ome.git develop > omero-latest.tar

   or

  git archive --remote git://openmicroscopy.org/ome.git v.4.3.1 > omero-4.3.1.tar
  /tmp $ ls -ltrah omero-4.3.1.tar
  -rw-r--r--  1 moore  wheel   373M Jul 18 09:58 omero-4.3.1.tar

but the 373MB DOES include the jars which you intend to rebuild, namely all of those under lib/repository. You will either need to replace the jars in place with your self-compiled ones, or modify the Ivy configuration (etc/ivysettings.xml) in order to pick up the jars elsewhere. Further, the server expects to find the jars under lib/server (of the compiled version) making use of "java -jar lib/server/blitz.jar" and blitz.jar's manifest, which you will need to modify if you don't want any jars stored under lib/server.

Please let us know if you run into any problems.

Cheers,
~Josh

On Jul 10, 2011, at 3:40 PM, Ankur Sinha wrote:

> On Mon, 2011-07-04 at 21:54 -0500, Curtis Rueden wrote:
>> The link Johannes mentioned is useful for getting OMERO.server
>> installed, but if you really want to build from source, check out:
>> 
>>  http://trac.openmicroscopy.org/ome/wiki/OmeroContributing
>> 
>> Additional details about the build system can be found at:
>>  http://trac.openmicroscopy.org/ome/wiki/OmeroBuild
>>  http://trac.openmicroscopy.org.uk/ome/wiki/OmeroDevelopment
>> 
>> Regards,
>> Curtis
>> 
>> 
> 
> Hello Curtis,
> 
> I was in the process of cloning the git url at the site. Is the source
> really 1.8GB?
> 
>> Receiving objects:  34% (99977/288873), 615.99 MiB 
>> 
> 
> (by ration and proportion ;) )
> 
> Is all of this 1.8 GB necessary for building it?
> 
> -- 
> Thanks, 
> Regards,
> Ankur: "FranciscoD"
> 
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