[1.13.pre] Setting up workspace for eclipse (Solved)

[BatHeart]

I'm probably just doing something wrong, but I have tried to set up the development workspace for 1.13 and I don't see the end-product that I am expecting.

I realise, from checking this forum, that it is no longer necessary to run gradlew setupDecompWorkspace but that I should only run gradlew eclipse.

I also cleared out my .gradle folders to give it a clean start.

The gradlew eclipse runs through successfully in 6 or 7 minutes and there are no errors thrown.

However, I am expecting to see an eclipse folder created, which I point my copy of eclipse to. This is how it always worked previously. But I don't see an eclipse folder, so I don't know what to do next.

Has something gone wrong, or am I just not aware of how to continue?

Edited February 7, 2019 by BatHeart
Solved

[BatHeart]

I managed to solve this myself. Just start up Eclipse and point it at an empty workspace. Then Import - General - Existing projects into workspace, and point this at the base folder where you unzipped Forge and performed the set up (i.e. where the .project file is)

[JaredBGreat]

This is tricky -- I've always used NetBeans for everything but Minecraft, and have only used Eclipse with projects pre-made by Forge / Forge Gradle.  Is there a guide or tutorial somewhere that could help me get started?  My experience so far is that Gradle and / or Eclipse is finicky and projects can be strangely fragile (I'll skip examples, but the setup can be very weird and behave like no other software).

 

For example, what is the root directory?  Should it be the main project folder?  The ./src folder?  The ./src/main folder?  I.e., is it for the project as a whole or source files?  It's not really clear.

Edited February 18, 2019 by JaredBGreat
left out a key word ("Eclipse")

[Cadiboo]

The root directory is the . folder. So the one above /src