Installing Visual COBOL into other instances of Eclipse

Visual COBOL ships with Eclipse 4.28 (2023-06).

After installing Visual COBOL, you can then also install it in other instances of Eclipse 4.28 (2023-06) available on the same machine; no other versions of Eclipse are supported.

Note: You must use the Eclipse IDE for Java EE Developers package. This includes all the tools that Visual COBOL requires.

To assist you with automatically installing the Micro Focus plug-ins into other instances of Eclipse, Visual COBOL provides an installation utility, installeclipseplugins.bat available in the %ProgramFiles(x86)%\Micro Focus\Visual COBOL\installer folder.

To install Visual COBOL into another instance of Eclipse:

Start a Visual COBOL command prompt.
At the command prompt, navigate to the location of the install utility: %ProgramFiles(x86)%\Micro Focus\Visual COBOL\installer.
Run the install utility from the command prompt using the following syntax:
```
installeclipseplugins -eclipse <EclipsePath> [-cobdir <CobdirPath>] [-nosplash] [-installsubclipse]
```
where:

EclipsePath

Full path to the installation directory of the instance of Eclipse you are installing into.

CobdirPath

Optional - the full path to the installation directory of Visual COBOL. If this is not specified, the COBDIR environment variable is used.

-nosplash

Optional - if set, the installation does not replace the existing splash screen. A non-default Eclipse splash screen is not replaced, regardless of this setting.

-installsubclipse

Optional - if set, Subclipse is installed to the specified Eclipse location.

Note: Ensure that your PATH is set to a 64-bit version of Java. The default COBDIR location on Windows is C:\Program Files (x86)\Micro Focus\Enterprise Developer. Alternatively, you can specify COBDIR from the command line.

Running the utility installs the Visual COBOL plug-ins into the specified Eclipse instance.
For example, to install Visual COBOL into an instance of Eclipse 4.28 (2023-06), available in the c:\eclipse folder, run the install utility with the following parameters:
```
installeclipseplugins -eclipse c:\eclipse -nosplash
```