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.

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]

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.

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...

Just set up the gradle dependency for that.

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