[1.14] Setting up for (Contributing to) Forge Development

[Draco18s]

According to the docs:

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1. Open a terminal/command prompt and navigate it to the directory of your cloned fork.
2. Type ./gradlew setup and hit enter. Wait until ForgeGradle is done.
3. Open your eclipse workspace and go to File -> Import -> General -> Existing Projects into workspace.

Step 3 fails for me, Eclipse tells me that there are no existing projects.

I can import as a Gradle project instead and at least be able to view and edit things, but Eclipse does not see the files as being part of a project and I can't use usual IDE features, such as navigating to declaration or finding references, or for that matter, running the game. This makes it very difficult to do anything beyond the most trivial of patches.

 

 

What am I missing?

 

Edited September 30, 2019 by Draco18s

[Animefan8888]

6 minutes ago, Draco18s said:

According to the docs:

For 1.14 I've always ran ./gradlew eclipse then ./gradlew genEclipseRuns.

[Draco18s]

1 minute ago, Animefan8888 said:

For 1.14 I've always ran ./gradlew eclipse then ./gradlew genEclipseRuns.

I am not looking for a "make a mod" commands but "contribute to forge" commands.

[Draco18s]

Figured it out. Had to dig into the gradle tasks, but I had to run two commands separately.

./gradlew :forge:eclipse

./gradlew :clean:eclipse

Neither of these were visible in the build.gradle file or the settings.gradle file, but the command line popped a hint while I was poking around that said:

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To see a list of the tasks of a project, run gradlew <project-path>:tasks
For example, try running gradlew :clean:tasks

And I did and that's how I found what I needed.