Running and Installing Builds
There is not much to be said about installing a build - it is not
really more difficult than using a wizard-based installer. Simply
unpack the ZIP file of the build to a fresh directory on disk (using
unzip on Unix or
WinZIP on Windows, e.g.).
You should be able to run the IDE's launcher script / executable in
the bin/ subdirectory from there - on Windows, you should
probably use runide.exe, on Unix runide.sh.
This will start the IDE with default settings, such as the system's
default JDK path and so on. You may want to make a
ide.cfg file in the same bin directory to hold startup options, for
example:
-jdkhome c:\jdk14
-J-Dnetbeans.logger.console=true
(I recommend making this file once and copying it to the
bin/ directories of new build installations.) Here a
couple of common options are being shown. For general config-file
startup options such as
-jdkhome, run the launcher
program with
-help to see the options. The Java VM
option here defines a useful system property;
netbeans.logger.console asks the IDE to
print any exceptions, warnings, or information to the console, not just
to
$USERDIR/system/ide.log.
You can also run a build immediately after making it with Ant:
ant tryme
This will use a temporary user directory by default, so it is best for just
trying out the IDE and seeing if it is working as expected.
