Question

I am trying to get a simple Akka program building with Eclipse and Scala. I used g8 to create the sbt project with Akka(g8 typesafehub/akka-scala-sbt) and then sbteclispe to create the Eclipse project. When I import the project into Eclipse I’m given errors saying I am missing Akka. Is there any way that I can build an Akka project with Eclipse?

Answer 1

The simplest thing is to add the sbteclipse plugin to your Sbt build. It automatically generates project files for Eclipse, so that you can import your project with all its settings, classpath included. To do so, add the following under project/plugins.sbt (not in the root of your project, but under the project subdirectory):

addSbtPlugin("com.typesafe.sbteclipse" % "sbteclipse-plugin" % "2.1.0")

then, start sbt and at the prompt write eclipse. You should see:

> eclipse
[info] About to create Eclipse project files for your project(s).
[info] Successfully created Eclipse project files for project(s):
[info] Test Project

Then go to Eclipse and Import your project.