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Asked: 2026-06-07T17:02:06+00:00

Always when I’m creating an eclipse plugin from jars using eclipse’s wizard, everything works

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Always when I’m creating an eclipse plugin from jars using eclipse’s wizard, everything works fine on this computer. But when I try to use the same plugin project on another computer (using git), I get dependency issues. I guess that’s because the jars were not actually copied into the plugin project folder, but doing this manually doesn’t help and neither I can see an option in the wizard to do so…
Btw, I’ve used this tutorial step by step.

How can I fix dependencies without having to re-create them on each machine?

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  1. Editorial Team

    I just tried, and the wizard does copy external JARs into the plugin project and adds them to the manifest file and build.properties. If you don’t have the JAR(s) directly in your plugin project then something is definitely wrong; have you tried the wizard more than once, and with different JARs?

    If you manually copy a JAR into the bundle project, go to the Build tab of the manifest editor and make sure that the JAR(s) is/are selected for inclusion under the Binary Build section – that’s what tells Eclipse which files from the project to include when it builds/exports the bundle. Also use the Runtime tab to export all packages from the JAR, as described in the tutorial.

    Update: There’s an option in the wizard that you usually want to turn off: Unzip the JAR archive into the project. That option will dump the .class files (and other contents from the JAR(s) instead of just including the JARs themselves. As the tutorial explains, that’s not usually what you want. For example, if you check the project into source control (such as cvs, svn, or git), .class files are often ignored. Best to leave the option un-checked.

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