Dear all,
I have managed to speed up the initial MDK installation on multiple PC. This is what I did and tested on a PC (Windows) and would like to learn how to do on a Mac and to see it this it works too. It is not completely offline, but it hastens the process by a lot. The initial setup was long for the first machine (45 mins). With the following steps, the setup time took under 5 mins which is acceptable.
Version tested: forge-1.8-11.14.4.1577
Assumes Eclipse and JDK has been installed
[*]Download the ForgeGrade MDK and unzip to a folder, e.g. forge
[*]Install onto PC-1 using the "
gradlew setupDecompWorkspace
" then followed by "
gradlew eclipse
" from command prompt
[*]Zip up the entire forge, and the .gradle folder in C:\Users\YOURUSERNAME_PC1\.gradle
[*]On PC-2, extract out the zipped forge folder to your desired location. Similarly, extract the zipped .gradle file, but place it into PC-2's user folder (e.g. C:\Users\YOURUSERNAME_PC2)
[*]In PC-2, go to the forge folder and run "
gradlew setupDecompWorkspace
" then followed by "
gradlew eclipse
" from command prompt
[*]Load Eclipse and point the workspace to the forge\eclipse folder and everything should be working.
I would like to hear other people's experience on this and if it works or not. I found that sometimes, I get an error about an empty "project_loc" when I try to run the client. I then open up the forge_Client.launch file and after that the error does not appear again.