- Start NetBeans 7.0 or later (these instructions do not work with earlier versions).
- Install the Team Server Plugin (may be done already with some NetBeans installations):
- Use Tools / Plugins and choose the "Available Plugins" tab in the Plugins manager.
- In the left pane, check the "Team Server" plugin and click "Install".
If it is not listed, then it may already be installed.
- Use Window / Services to open the "Services" tab
- Expand the "Team Server" node and check that the "java.net" Team Server is listed.
- Download Electric Sources from java.net .
- Use Team / Team Server / java.net and click Open Project
- Search for "electric", select "Electric: VLSI Design System", and click "Open From Team Server"
- Expand the "Electric: VLSI Design System" node in the "Team" tab and the "Sources" subnode
- Click "Source Code Repository (get)"
- Either enter "Folder To Get" or click the "Browse..." button and choose "trunk" .
- Choose "Local Folder" and select the location for Electric Sources.
The default is "~/NetBeansProjects/electric~svn"
- Click "Get From Team Server"
- When done, the "Checkout Completed" dialog will say that projects were checked-out. Click "Open Project...", choose "electric", and click "Open".
- Build Electric
- Click Run / Set Project Configuration / release-profile.
- In the "Projects" tab, right-click "electric" and choose "Build".
The Electric project is large. If the build hangs, then it may be necessary to add
"-J-Xmx2g" to the netbeans_default_options in file <NETBEANS_INSTALLATION>/etc/netbeans.conf .
- Run Electric.
- Use either Run / Run Main Project (electric) or Debug / Debug Main Project (electric) from the main menu.
- Create a shortcut to start Electric from Desktop:
- Create a shortcut to "~/NetBeansProjects/electric~svn/electric/dist/electric.jar" in Unix
or to "Local Folder\Documents\NetBeansProjects\electric~svn\trunk\electric\target\electric-V.VV-n-SNAPSHOT-jar-with-dependencies.jar" in Windows
- Edit shortcut's "OpenWith" to OpenJDK or other Java distribution.
Make this shortcut executable.
- Launch Electric with this shortcut.
- Create electric distribution for your organization (optional).
- Copy the folder ~/NetBeansProjects/electric~svn/electric/dist (with subdirectories) to a shared location
in your file system.