How can I build and run IntelliJ from source?
I found the instructions at: http://www.jetbrains.org/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=983225
and built using ant, but I'm not sure how to actually run IntelliJ after building it. How should I do this? And is it possible to have it share all configurations and projects with the standard community edition download that I've been using?
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Found a relevant post on StackOverflow that solved my problem: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/21765485/any-way-to-run-intellij-community-build-from-altered-source
The missing step from the jetbrains link is to unpack the appropriate archive, which provides a directory structure containing a path to .../bin/idea.sh, which can be run just as in the prebuilt downloads.