I want to compile, and most importantly, debug (single stepping etc.) Inkscape on windows but I am stuck at some of the instructions.

I followed this:
http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/Using_Eclipse

Then this:
http://wiki.bazaar.canonical.com/BzrEcl ... stallation

But at this step there is nothing like "bazaar" in the project window:

Go to: *File* --> *New* --> *Project*<<BR>Eclipse opens the new project dialog
Under *Bazaar* select *Project From Bazaar* and click *Next*.
Eclipse shows the *Eclipse Project From Bazaar* dialog.

I installed Eclipse 4.3 Kepler (recommended), but at the download site, there are several sub versions:
http://eclipse.org/downloads/packages/r ... Kepler/SR2

It is not mentioned which sub version of eclipse you are supposed to download. I downloaded "Eclipse IDE for C/C++ Developers", but maybe that one is not correct?

If you don't get any replies here, you may get a better response from either the development or user mailing lists. https://inkscape.org/en/community/mailing-lists/

Thanks, will subscribe to that.

Unfortunately there was no reply on the mailing list.

The instructions here also seem to be broken:
http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/Using_Eclipse

As with the other link, it also states:

In Eclipse:
File > New > Project...
Select Bazaar > Checkout as a new project

But there is no Bazaar item in the Project dialog. However, there is one here:
File->Import->Bazaar->Project from bazaar. But when I press Run or Debug, it displays the error "Unable to launch - The selection cannot be launched, and there are no recent launches".

Also, this text doesn't make sense to me:

Eclipse on Windows (deprecated since we use Bazaar now)

According to wikipedia: "Bazaar is a distributed revision control system" and I do not see any evidence that Bazaar supports an IDE debugging environment like Eclipse, so I do not see how Bazaar can replace Eclipse.

Any help?

Wow, it's hard to imagine why no one answered your message! The message posted just after yours seems to have been somewhat inflamatory, so maybe yours just became overlooked. If it were me, I might either reply to my own message, or repost it, just to try and get someone's attention. But I don't know if that's proper etiquette. Probably not! I would do it because I'm a newbie to the development world, and probably don't know any better.

There is another way to contact developers, which is through IRC. https://inkscape.org/en/community/discussion/. You probably know more about communicating on this level, than I do, so I can only point you there. What you do is up to you. Or maybe a developer will answer this, eventually?

Yeah, I noticed the mailing list lit up about other stuff. Will try again some other time. Thanks for the IRC link. Will check it out.

No reply on IRC. Will try later again.

In the mean time, here is an interesting article about open source and Windows:

Do you run an open-source project? Want it to support Windows? Wonder why windows programmers are not jumping in to help you?

It’s because you’re making it hard for them.

http://blog.kowalczyk.info/article/pc/O ... ndows.html

Hi elecman,

Have you figured out what was wrong? I'm running into the same issue on Fedora 22, so this is NOT a windows issue. Clearly the instructions you referred to are wrong, I noticed the same!

Problem is hardly anyone of the devs uses Eclipse, so that's why you're not getting a reply on the mailing list.