Alrighty, my turn now.
So here's what I've done so far:
1) Downloaded and installed the JDK. It also installed something called Glassfish, which I was unhappy with, but I figure there was no other way to install the JDK anyway so I just went with it.
2) Downloaded and installed Eclipse. Went smooth.
3) Failed to download and install Subclipse. It seems that the "Install New Software" menu is incapable of connecting to any repository I've tried, something called a "provision exception". I searched google for an answer, tried a lot of stuff to get it to work, including turning off my firewall and adding arguments to the eclipse run command, no go.
4) Drdev said I would be fine just using Tortoise to get the source and open it in Eclipse. Tortoise did work just fine and I checked out the trunk. So far so good.
5) After several attempts to import the source code as a project into Eclipse, I have yet to be able to run the program properly. My most "successful" attempt was this:
* Right-click on the project explorer -> import -> Existing projects into workspace -> Set the source code directory, checked "search for nested", then checked all projects that appeared as well as "copy into workspace".
* With this, most projects are listed as having errors (small red x on the project icon), and the error log shows 16,301 errors (btw, how can I actually see more than the first 100 errors?). I can run the forge-m-desktop project, which gives me a splash screen and then freezes with an error in the build results window. Attempts to run the forge-gui project result in the following:
Exception in thread "main" java.lang.Error: Unresolved compilation problems:
CardStorageReader cannot be resolved to a type
CardStorageReader cannot be resolved to a variable
CardStorageReader cannot be resolved to a type
CardStorageReader cannot be resolved to a type
CardStorageReader cannot be resolved to a type
Observer cannot be resolved to a type
StaticData cannot be resolved to a type
StaticData cannot be resolved to a type
at forge.Singletons.initializeOnce(Singletons.java:59)
at forge.view.Main.main(Main.java:39)
Attempts to run the ForgeLocal project give me the run configuration menu, where I've tried inputting the values mentioned in previous posts. This results in the same error message as above.
Your turn, code wizards.