Hi,

 

All the information that I can find about using APIs for other mods is incredibly unclear, and I was hoping someone could clarify things for me.

 

It is obvious that I need two things: the API, and the De-obfuscated Jar for the mod, but no-where I have looked seems to distinguish between the two, making it unclear as to what I am expected to do with them.

 

EDIT: I am trying to do so for 1.8 if that makes much difference.

You can download all the mods you want using gradle : just use the dev version (de-obfuscated) or add the code chicken core (/code chicken lib) in your dev workspace to play with obfuscated mods without de-deobfuscating the mod, I've made a tutorial for this here : http://www.minecraftforgefrance.fr/showthread.php?tid=2689 (in french sorry)

 

There is 3 types of jars : the obfuscated (the one used to play), the de-obfuscated (to use in your dev environment), the source (uncompiled files).

 

the API seems to be only the files to use to make your classpath happy

Thanks for the reply, but I'm unable to make much use of that tutorial.

After a bit of experimentation, I've found a method that works somewhat.

 

What I have done is put the de-obfuscated mod jar in "/run/mods/" so that the mod is included when running, and the API source in "/src/main/java/" so it shows up in eclipse

 

Unfortunately some APIs (such as the Thaumcraft API) have compile-time missing-reference errors that I am not sure what to do about.

 

 

Presumably there is a way to make Eclipse ignore these errors, but I have no idea how.

You can put the deobfsucated version of your dependency in the libs folder of your root project, the whole thing will then be included in eclipse (you'll need to re-run gradle eclipse).