How To Build Localized IDE
When you know well about ant and UNIX/Linux command line, you can build
localized NetBeans IDE in the following step.
You can do these steps on NetBeans IDE. We recommend it for Windows
developers. Please check
Download NetBeans IDE sources
Download sources and unzip into your working folder.
NetBeans 5.5
You can download it from download page.
NetBeans 5.0
Check out translatedfiles/src
If you need the latest localized files, please try to checkout
translatedfiles/src.
% unzip netbeans-5_5-ide_sources.zip
% cd netbeans-src
% /bin/rm -rf translatedfiles
% cvs co -r release55 translatedfiles
Please use release50 for NetBeans 5.0.
Localize Bundle.properties
If you need to localize, please do some localization. You can follow
the following documents.
Build IDE
You need to build IDE first before you build localized IDE
zip file of English IDE e.g.
NetBeans-release55-xx.zip
will be created under
nbbuild/.
Build localized IDE
Run target
all-translatedfiles
in
nbbuild directory. You need
to specify
locales property.
% cd nbbuild
% ant -Dlocales=ja,ko,es all-translatedfiles
The localized zip file of NetBeans IDE e.g.
NetBeans-release55-xx-ja.zip will be
created under
translatedfiles/.
Start IDE and
Platform in your language
Unzip the zip file and start IDE in your locale, or specify --locale
option.
% unzip NetBeans-release55-xx-ja.zip
% netbeans/bin/netbeans
% netbeans/bin/netbeans --locale zh:CN
