Building Netbeans from source without additional downloads

[dddaley]

I am attempting to have Netbeans 27 installed on our team server at work. I have cleared a number of hurdles in making that happen. However, they require that they can build the binaries from source without the builder downloading additional packages.

I have not used ant in many years, but once the Netbeans source has been downloaded and extracted, is there a way to build the IDE without the build script downloading additional software... assuming that we have the prerequisites already installed (git, ant, JDK17+)?

Thanks

[matthiasblaesing]

No NetBeans can't be build without external binaries. You can download them via ant download-all-extbins and then go offline, but you need them.