Creating an eclipse plugin without gui: what am I missing?

Question

I'm creating an eclipse plugin using java code generated via a Makefile (yes, I know ant). The final target of my makefile is a zip containing the following structure (I used the plugin for javacc as an inspiration):

$ unzip -l myplugin_2015.02.16.zip 
Archive:  myplugin_2015.02.16.zip
  Length      Date    Time    Name
---------  ---------- -----   ----
        0  02-16-2015 09:30   feature/
        0  02-16-2015 09:30   feature/myplugin.feature_2015.02.16/
      474  02-16-2015 09:30   feature/myplugin.feature_2015.02.16/feature.xml
        0  02-16-2015 09:30   plugins/
        0  02-16-2015 09:30   plugins/myplugin_2015.02.16/
        0  02-16-2015 09:30   plugins/myplugin_2015.02.16/META-INF/
      527  02-16-2015 09:30   plugins/myplugin_2015.02.16/META-INF/MANIFEST.MF
      492  02-16-2015 09:30   plugins/myplugin_2015.02.16/plugin.xml
    23079  02-16-2015 09:30   plugins/myplugin_2015.02.16/idp192.jar
---------                     -------
    24572                     9 files

No I'd like to import this zip in eclipse as a new plugin. When I run eclipse->install-new-software->Add->archive it fails with "no software size found for jar:... , do you wish do edit location ?".

I suspect I need to wrap this zip in a site file ? is there a minimal way to create this 'site' archive ? or is there a simplier solution , something missing in my plugin.zip ? Most important, I don't want to use any GUI.

Thank you for your help

Have you done it as it was mentioned [here](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/299283/how-to-write-a-plugin-for-eclipse) ? — Szymon Roziewski, Feb 16 '15 at 09:16

score 0 · Accepted Answer · answered Feb 16 '15 at 11:43

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fixed a few hours later: just moving my *.jar to eclipse/plugin fixed the problem.

answered Feb 16 '15 at 11:43

Pierre

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