It took me a little effort to get Idea's Groovy Plugin built, so I thought I'd share my experiences for those who don't want to fall in the same traps.

I started from some instructions on the forums, but still had trouble. Some filenames were wrong, and working on the mac changed some of the details. Here are my revised instructions:

• Update to a new EAP of IDEA. The plugin wasn't built for IDEA 6
  
• Checkout the project from http://svn.jetbrains.org/idea/Trunk/groovy/
• When you first open the project, you may be asked to make a variable association. I pointed the templates variable to ${project}/resources/fileTemplates
• I had to create a new Intellij IDEA SDK pointing it to my IDEA installation
• Add tools.jar (on windows) or classes.jar (on the mac) from your JDK installation to the SDK classpath
  
• Add idea.jar from your idea installation (on the mac, the file is /Applications/Selena-6951.app/lib/idea.jar) to your SDK classpath
  
• There are already two ant scripts in the ant window. Run the one called generate lexer from groovy
• Run the build>make command from IDEA's menu
• Run the build>Prepare Plugin Module 'groovy' for deployment command from IDEA's menu
• A zip file will be generated to the project directory. Copy it to IDEA's plugin directory and unzip it.
• Restart IDEA
  

I've attached the file for those daring enough to install software from some stranger's blog: groovy.zip

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posted by Bryan at 10:19 PM