Question

How do I build an SWT application using the Eclipse P2 repository and the Maven tycho-p2-plugin?

Answer 1

You can define the target environments for ‘target-platform-configuration’ plugin. Whatever you are building RCP or features for multiple environments, you can let your feature to include the fragments of swt for these hosts.

        <plugin>
            <groupId>org.eclipse.tycho</groupId>
            <artifactId>target-platform-configuration</artifactId>
            <version>${tycho-version}</version>
            <configuration>
                <resolver>p2</resolver>
                <environments>
                    <environment>
                        <os>linux</os>
                        <ws>gtk</ws>
                        <arch>x86</arch>
                    </environment>
                    <environment>
                        <os>win32</os>
                        <ws>win32</ws>
                        <arch>x86</arch>
                    </environment>
                    <environment>
                        <os>solaris</os>
                        <ws>gtk</ws>
                        <arch>sparc</arch>
                    </environment>
                </environments>
            </configuration>
        </plugin>

Snippet in feature.xml

   <plugin
         id="org.eclipse.swt"
         download-size="0"
         install-size="0"
         version="0.0.0"
         unpack="false"/>

   <plugin
         id="org.eclipse.swt.gtk.linux.x86"
         os="linux"
         ws="gtk"
         arch="x86"
         download-size="0"
         install-size="0"
         version="0.0.0"
         fragment="true"
         unpack="false"/>

   <plugin
         id="org.eclipse.swt.win32.win32.x86"
         os="win32"
         ws="win32"
         arch="x86"
         download-size="0"
         install-size="0"
         version="0.0.0"
         fragment="true"
         unpack="false"/>