[Video Tutorial] Minecolonies Development Environment Setup

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A few days ago, I responded to @raycom's call for contributors to Minecolonies. I'm a Java developer, although my background is on web development.

For this tutorial, I'll walk you through how to setup your development environment if you're also thinking to be a contributor.

I ran into a couple of issues when I tried to setup my dev environment, hopefully from this tutorial, anyone looking to be a contributor can quickly set it up and go directly into contributing to the project.

I have a Windows machine, as such this will be mainly a tutorial on setting it up on a Windows box. Let's start.

Pre-requisites

This tutorial assumes that you've already installed the tools needed to setup the environment. From the project's README, they are:

1. Java JDK
2. Gradle (optional)
3. Git
4. IntelliJ IDEA (Community Version)

The steps are in the README. Just some important pointers:

• Setup JAVA_HOME in your system environment variables
• Setup GRADLE_HOME in your system environment variables
• Add %JAVA_HOME%\bin and %GRADLE_HOME%\bin to your system Path

Once you've set that up, we can now proceed to Setup MineColonies. And that's where this video starts.

Commands to run:

$ gradlew idea
$ gradlew setupDecompWorkspace
$ gradlew genIntelliJRuns

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