areca-backup

Areca Backup - Development Environment

Dependency Recommended version Purpose How to check if it is ready
JDK (vendors) 8 LTS or higher Runtime environment for Ant and Areca $ javac -version
Apache Ant 1.10.x or higher Building tool (compiles native launchers) $ ant -version
Git 2.x.x or higher Manage areca and launcher repos $ git --version
Rust 1.x.x or higher Rust language to build native launchers $ rustc --version

How to make Git ignores executable bit of files among filesystems

See git core.fileMode

git config core.fileMode false

Required charset encoding

ISO-8859-1

Visual Studio Code

Menu File > submenu Preferences > Settings option > Workspace > Text Editor > Files > Encoding > ISO-8859-1

Or edit areca-backup/.vscode/settings.json:

{
  "files.encoding": "iso88591"
}

IntelliJ IDEA

File Encodings

Eclipse

Menu Window > Preferences option > General > Workspace, set Text file encoding to Other: and choose ISO-8859-1.