Setting up Eclipse IDE and EMF

Downloading Eclipse IDE

Before installing Eclipse IDE make sure you have both of JDK and JRE installed in your machine

Windows

• For Intel/AMD CPUs: Download Eclipse Modeling Tools x86_64

• For ARM based CPUs: Download Eclipse Modeling Tools AARCH64

After downloading extract ZIP file content in C:\eclipse

Then create a shortcut on desktop by executing this command in CMD:

powershell -c "$s=(New-Object -ComObject WScript.Shell).CreateShortcut('$env:USERPROFILE\Desktop\Eclipse IDE.lnk');$s.TargetPath='C:\eclipse\eclipse.exe';$s.Save()"

Linux

MacOS

Full EMF installation

The TP1 instructions will not cover all the required EMF elements for our project, but we will show how to install them here:

1

Open Eclipse IDE -> Help -> Install New Software...

2

In "Work with" field, select "Latest Eclipse Simultaneous Release"

3

Find and select the "Modeling" folder then press "Next" button

4

Agree to terms of the license agreement and click next

Then wait until everything is downloaded

5

Restart Eclipse

After finishing installation you will be prompted to restart Eclipse, click yes and wait for eclipse to restart