Installation

This section provides the instructions for installing Safe DDS Gen in a Linux environment from sources. Safe DDS Gen is a Java application that generates source code using the data types defined in an IDL file. Please refer to Safe DDS Gen for more information.

Requirements

Safe DDS Gen is built using Gradle. Gradle is an open-source build automation tool which requires a Java version to be executed (see Gradle-Java compatibility matrix).

Note

Safe DDS Gen does not support Gradle 8.

Java JDK

The JDK is a development environment for building applications and components using the Java language. There are several versions of Java available. For instance, to install Java 11 JDK, run the following command:

sudo apt install openjdk-11-jdk

Note

Safe DDS Gen supports Java versions from 11 to 19.

Compiling Safe DDS Gen

In order to compile Safe DDS Gen, an executable script is included in the repository which will download Gradle temporarily for the compilation step. Please, follow the steps below to build Safe DDS Gen:

cd code-gen
./gradlew assemble

Note

In case that a supported Gradle version is already installed in the system, Safe DDS Gen can also be built running directly:

gradle assemble