# How do I setup OpenMRS core to compile in eclipse?

**URL:** <https://talk.openmrs.org/t/how-do-i-setup-openmrs-core-to-compile-in-eclipse/2735>\
**Category:** Development\
**Tags:** eclipse\
**Created:** [August 9, 2015, 1:21pm UTC](https://talk.openmrs.org/t/how-do-i-setup-openmrs-core-to-compile-in-eclipse/2735 "2015-08-09T13:21:20Z")\
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**Author:** ![mkz\_recommind](https://talk.openmrs.org/user_avatar/talk.openmrs.org/mkz_recommind/32/1130_2.png) [@mkz\_recommind](https://talk.openmrs.org/u/mkz_recommind)\
**Post date:** [August 10, 2015, 1:34pm UTC](https://talk.openmrs.org/t/how-do-i-setup-openmrs-core-to-compile-in-eclipse/2735/3 "2015-08-10T13:34:08Z")

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Hi Sandeep,

Thank you for the warm welcome. I had already given up on this, but since you were kind enough to answer, I put in another couple of hours trying to make this work. I hadn’t tried eclipse juno yet. We use Luna at our company, and the newest version is Mars, so those are the two versions I tried. The plugins were already installed when I made the attempts I described above.

For some reason that I wasn’t able to track down, I wasn’t able to install the maven plugin under juno though. Since I wasn’t thrilled anyways about the idea of working with an IDE which doesn’t support Java 8 features, I aborted that attempt.

Running the maven build from within eclipse as you described didn’t get me to my goal either. I got a failure with this description:

```
"[ERROR] Failed to execute goal com.mycila:license-maven-plugin:2.6:check (default) on project openmrs-tools: Resource license-header.txt not found in file system, classpath or URL: no protocol: license-header.txt -> [Help 1]."

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Right now, my fallback is to tell my developers tomorrow to ignore the eclipse errors.

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