Rudder plugins compilation

Question

I need to get rudder plugins, I git cloned it but I need to compile it on another machine which does not have access to the internet. I folllowed the instructions to compile the plugin in rudder-plugin directory,but it fails trying to download rudder-parent-5.0.0.pom. I downloaded it from another machine, scp it on the machine that can compile the code, but it still need to download the file. Do you have any instruction or a bundle like, to compile with all file needed (make/ar/maven/java8 jdk tools are already Installed on compilation machine) ?

Thank you for your help Luc

Answer 1

Compiling plugins on a machine without an internet connection, espicially without some fluency with maven build tool and local repository, can be hard. Maven is doing a lot of verification/download, which can be tedious to do by hand. So we recomand to build plugins on a connected machine, and then only deploy the resulting binary.

That being said, if you really, really want to try, the most likely solution is to first build a first time on the connected machine (or at least run a mvn dependency:resolve in the plugin directory after having done a make generate-all-pom in the plugins root directory). Then, rsync or tar the .m2/repository directory (which is the place of maven local cache for downloaded jars), and transfert/extract it to the machine where the compilation will be done.

Hope it helps,