[1.7.10] How do I use apis?

[erindalc]

Hello everyone,

 

I have recently taken up modding and I am having trouble finding a good tutorial on how to use APIs and how to import them into eclipse. I am trying to use CoFHCore and Thermal Foundation. I've seen several conflicting methods here and on the MC forums.

 

To be clear: I do not want the API files as part of the mod, but I do want these mods as a dependency.

[Toxicshadow]

Not to be rude because I might not understand your question but have you tried:

import domain.package1.package2.Filename;

 

 

In seriousness I think this is what you want:

http://help.eclipse.org/juno/index.jsp?topic=%2Forg.eclipse.platform.doc.user%2Fconcepts%2Fconcepts-13.htm

if that doesn't help try [lmgtfy=where to place external resources in eclipse]this.[/lmgtfy]

[erindalc]

no...there was a specific way others did it. One was putting the files into the java/resources/api folder, but this isn't working for me. Another involved importing them via eclipse, which also didn't work.

[Elix_x]

You go in eclipse project explorer, right click on Minecraft, new Src folder, folder name = src/api/java. Now you go to modding folder in wexplorer, open src/api/java, put your apis there. They will be avaible via eclipse and will not be packaged with your mod...

[Abastro]

Just set up the gradle dependency for that.

See ForgeGradle section, it will help you a lot with gradle.