1. Welcome to Sunflower Development

This section covers the setup, configuration, and routine tasks that are performed when developing the Sunflower family of products. You can find the topics covered within the table of contents below.

• 1.1. How To Build Sunflower with Maven
  • 1.1.1. Prerequisites
  • 1.1.2. Configure Maven with Artifactory
    • 1.1.2.1. Artifactory Credentials
  • 1.1.3. Quickstart Builds
  • 1.1.4. Quickstart Build: Sunflower Foundation
  • 1.1.5. Quickstart Build: Sunflower Studio
  • 1.1.6. Maven Notes
  • 1.1.7. More Advanced Builds
    • 1.1.7.1. Make Only Sunflower Foundation Tasks
    • 1.1.7.2. Make The Floralib Eclipse bundle
    • 1.1.7.3. Make the Floralib and Tasks Eclipse bundles
    • 1.1.7.4. Make Sunflower Core and Floralib
  • 1.1.8. Building Without SRI Artifactory Access
    • 1.1.8.1. floralib-thalamus
    • 1.1.8.2. XSB and Flora
• 1.2. How To Build Sunflower Documentaion
  • 1.2.1. Prerequisites
    • 1.2.1.1. Installing Graphviz
      • 1.2.1.1.1. Using Homebrew on macOS
      • 1.2.1.1.2. Using msiexec on Windows 10
  • 1.2.2. Overview
  • 1.2.3. Checkout Documentation Sources
  • 1.2.4. Sunflower Foundation as a Dependency
  • 1.2.5. Installation of Documentation System
  • 1.2.6. Building Documentation
  • 1.2.7. Build Output
  • 1.2.8. Note
• 1.3. Configure Eclipse for Developing Sunflower
  • 1.3.1. Recommended Prerequisites for Macintosh OS X
    • 1.3.1.1. Homebrew
  • 1.3.2. Get Java 8
    • 1.3.2.1. Get Java 8 for Macintosh OS X
    • 1.3.2.2. Get Java 8 for Windows
  • 1.3.3. Get Maven
    • 1.3.3.1. Get Maven for Macintosh OS X using Homebrew
    • 1.3.3.2. Get Maven for Other Platforms
  • 1.3.4. Check Maven Installation
  • 1.3.5. Install Git client (GIT)
  • 1.3.6. Get the Sunflower Source
  • 1.3.7. Build Sunflower with Maven
  • 1.3.8. Get Eclipse SDK and Configure Target Platform
    • 1.3.8.1. Install Eclipse SDK
  • 1.3.9. Tips
• 1.4. Developing Sunflower With Eclipse
  • 1.4.1. Launching Sunflower from Eclipse
• 1.5. Building XSB, Flora, and Other Common Dependencies
  • 1.5.1. Requirements
  • 1.5.2. Native Source Code
  • 1.5.3. Building Flora and XSB
  • 1.5.4. Notes
  • 1.5.5. Usage
• 1.6. Creating a new Target Platform
  • 1.6.1. Procedure
• 1.7. Versioning Sunflower
  • 1.7.1. Versioning Strategy
  • 1.7.2. Versioning Sunflower Native
    • 1.7.2.1. XSB and Flora
      • 1.7.2.1.1. Version Number Strategy
      • 1.7.2.1.2. Updating Version Number
  • 1.7.3. Versioning Sunflower Foundation
    • 1.7.3.1. Versioning floralib-thalamus
  • 1.7.4. Versioning Sunflower Studio