From Aptana Development

This page describes how to build the Aptana Studio source code on your own computer.

Instructions

Building the Aptana source code on your own computer is fairly simple. For our own builds, we run an ant script; however, you can run the Aptana source as an application from inside Eclipse. To build the Aptana source code:

1. Connect to the Aptana source and download the source code as described in Connecting to Source Control.
2. Launch Aptana.
   1. In Eclipse, switch to the Java perspective.
   2. Open com.aptana.ide.rcp/ide.product.
   3. Click on Launch the product. It will launch Aptana, but fail...this is okay. It creates a launch configuration that's almost right.
   4. Open up the Run menu, and select Run...
   5. Make sure ide.product is selected on the left, and switch to the plugins tab.
   6. Click the Add Required Plugins button and the Validate Plug-in Set buttons.
   7. Click Run again. Aptana will launch.

You can now run Aptana inside of Eclipse. You can "export" Aptana for later use and distribution.

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