This plugin helps with developing and debugging LibreOffice extensions/components from Eclipse.

This release supports only LibreOffice 5.0 and upwards (due to some changed internal paths). It was tested with Eclipse Mars (4.5). Older versions might still work, but are untested.

For historic releases supporting older versions of LibreOffice (and OpenOffice) visit this site.

Install this plugin via the Eclipse Marketplace. Drag the button below to your running Eclipse instance.

After installing the plugin, you can create new extensions/components by using File->New->Project->LibreOffice.

You can also have a look at the LibreOffice Starter Extension. It contains a step-by-step guide to get started with extension development.

Developer and User Documentation is found in core/doc/help/html.

In order to build LOEclipseIntegration to produce an update site, you need to have LibreOffice, the LibreOffice SDK and Eclipse installed.

On Ubuntu for example you need libreoffice-dev and libreoffice-java-common.

Also you need to add some jar files to the build path in Eclipse. Select the Window->Preferences menu in Eclipse and open the Java->Build path->User Library configuration page. Then add a new library named LO-Classes and add the following jars from the LibreOffice installation (found in program/classes): unoil.jar juh.jar jurt.jar ridl.jar unoloader.jar. This is necessary in order to correctly build the sources.

You can run and debug this extension with Eclipse. Just import the projects using File->Import and run/debug the project as an Eclipse installation.

To build an update site, run the following command in the build folder:

ant -Dlibreoffice.home=... -Declipse.home=...

where libreoffice.home is the path to the LibreOffice installation and eclipse.home the path to the eclipse installation (needs to contain a plugins and a features directory).

You can also persist the options by setting the ANT_ARGS variable to

-Dlibreoffice.home=... -Declipse.home=....

Run ant help to see the available build targets.

• UNO-IDL syntax highlighting
• SDK and LibreOffice Configuration
• Java code generation
• New UNO project wizard
• New UNO file wizard
• New UNO service wizard
• New UNO interface wizard
• Skeleton-maker integration for basic components creation
• URE configuration
• New URE application wizard
• Automatic component build and packaging
• Automatic deployment to an existing LibreOffice installation
• Remote debugging using the Eclipse debugger
• Generate ant build script to build the extension without Eclipse