Windows software developer instructions?

Hello,

My name is Jacob; I'm a member of a team of university engineering students. For a project course, we're considering the addition of new (and of course open-source) hardware functionality to the RepRap. Of course, any functionality that we add will need to have software control components, so I'd like to modify the RepRap source code for our project.

As my group members are all Windows users, I am not sure that the instructions provided on the documentation website are suitable for us. As far as I can tell, instructions are provided only for Linux developers.
[reprap.org]

Does anyone know if there are instructions for how Windows users can view and edit the RepRap source code?

Thanks!

Jacob

Apologies for the double-post. In Windows, I've gotten as far as this:


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You will have to add lib/system-dependent/linux-i386 under the installation directory to the path that the system uses to search for library files. Type the following to run eclipse:

$ LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$LD_LIBRARY_PATH:~/workspace/Reprap/lib/system-dependent/linux-i386

$ export LD_LIBRARY_PATH

$ eclipse
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Is there a Windwos equivalent for the i386 libraries? I'm guessing that missing libraries might be why the RepRap code won't compile for me. I'm getting a NoClassDefFoundError:

java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: org/reprap/Main
Caused by: java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: org.reprap.Main
at java.net.URLClassLoader$1.run(Unknown Source)
at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
at java.net.URLClassLoader.findClass(Unknown Source)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(Unknown Source)
at sun.misc.Launcher$AppClassLoader.loadClass(Unknown Source)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(Unknown Source)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClassInternal(Unknown Source)
Exception in thread "main"

Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 08/23/2009 02:53AM by jbayless.

There are some notes on
[reprap.org]

You will need the java3d and rxtx libraries.

Good luck :-)

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That's only the installation instructions to use the software, not to edit the source code.

It's alright; I've figured it out, and I'll be happy to write a wiki page about the Windows procedure if one doesn't already exist.

Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 08/24/2009 08:18AM by jbayless.

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