sbt Getting started with sbt

Remarks

Versions

Import SBT Project into Eclipse

This assumes you have installed both Eclipse and SBT.

• Install the SBT plugin for Eclipse from the Eclipse marketplace.

• In the command line switch directory to the root directory of the project.

  $ cd ~/home/sample/project

• Execute sbt, which will load the project.

  $ sbt

• Compile the project to ensure dependencies are obtainable.

  > compile

• Run the eclipse task:

  > eclipse

• Go into Eclipse and select the menu option:

  File > New > Project From Existing Sources

• In the wizard, navigate to your project directory and select it. Eclipse will handle the rest.

Install on Mac OSX

Full official instructions can be found here.

MacPorts

Install MacPorts. Then, in the terminal execute:

port install sbt
 

Homebrew

Install Homebrew. Then, in the terminal execute:

brew install sbt
 

Sources

Download sbt All platforms (tgz) installation from SBT.

sudo su
cd /opt
mkdir sbt
cd sbt
curl https://dl.bintray.com/sbt/native-packages/sbt/0.13.13/sbt-0.13.13.tgz -o sbt-0.13.13.tgz
 

Then, execute following

tar zxf sbt-0.13.13.tgz
ln -s sbt-0.13.13 latest
 

Inside your $HOME make sure to update ~/.profile - by adding following lines

export SBT_HOME=/opt/sbt/latest
export PATH=$PATH:$SBT_HOME/bin
 

Verification

In the terminal execute:

which sbt
 

You should expect output similar to:

/opt/local/bin/sbt
 

If you get no output sbt is not installed.

Install SBT on Linux

Full instructions can be found here.

1. Install the JDK.

2. Set the Java Environment variable.

   export JAVA_HOME=/usr/local/java/jdk1.8.0_102
   echo $JAVA_HOME
   /usr/local/java/jdk1.8.0_102
   export PATH=$PATH:$JAVA_HOME/bin/
   echo $PATH
   ...:/usr/local/java/jdk1.8.0_102/bin/
    

3. Install Scala.

   sudo wget http://www.scala-lang.org/files/archive/scala-2.11.8.deb
   sudo dpkg -i scala-2.11.8.deb
   sudo apt-get update
   sudo apt-get install scala
    

4. Install SBT.

   wget https://bintray.com/artifact/download/sbt/debian/sbt-0.13.9.deb
   sudo dpkg -i sbt-0.13.9.deb
   sudo apt-get update
   sudo apt-get install sbt
    

RPM-based Linux Distributions

• Download SBT repository definitions and add it to YUM:

  curl https://bintray.com/sbt/rpm/rpm | sudo tee /etc/yum.repos.d/bintray-sbt-rpm.repo
   

• Install SBT according to the definitions previously added to YUM:

  sudo yum install sbt
   

Install SBT on Windows

Install

MSI installers can be found here. This is the latest stable version. Download and execute to install.

Verify Installation

• Use the WindowsKey + R , type cmd .

• Alternatively, navigate to the .sbt (for example, in C:\Users\Hopper ) and type cmd in the address bar.

• Type sbt about to get version information, verifying it is installed. You should see something like this:

  Java HotSpot(TM) 64-But Server VM warning: ignoring option MaxPermSize=256m; support was removed in 8.0
  [info] Set current project to root--sbt (in build file:/C:/Users/Hopper/.sbt/)
  [info] This is sbt 0.13.8
  ...