Building Slice Tools for Ice

This document describes how to build and publish the Slice Tools for Ice Gradle Plugin.

Prerequisites

• JDK 17 or greater

Build

The plugin can be built using the following Gradle command:

../../gradlew build

This will:

• Compile the source code
• Run tests
• Package the plugin

Bundled Compilers and Ice Slice Files

To ensure that the Slice-to-Java compiler (slice2java) and the Ice Slice files are included with the plugin and available at runtime, they must be copied to the plugin’s resources directory.

The plugin expects the following structure within src/main/resources/:

src/main/resources/resources/slice         # Ice Slice files
src/main/resources/resources/macos-arm64   # slice2java compiler for macOS (Apple Silicon)
src/main/resources/resources/linux-arm64   # slice2java compiler for Linux (ARM64)
src/main/resources/resources/linux-x64     # slice2java compiler for Linux (x86_64)
src/main/resources/resources/windows-x64   # slice2java compiler for Windows (x64)

Publish

The plugin can be published to Maven Local for testing.

Publish to Maven Local (For Development)

To publish the plugin to your local Maven repository (~/.m2/repository), run:

../../gradlew publishToMavenLocal

This allows other projects on your machine to use the locally published version.