While the info in this post can easily be found elsewhere, I’m trying to give a beginner-friendly, hopefully at least half-coherent explanation of the topic. Part of the rationale behind this is to make a note to myself, so please forgive any inaccuracies (or better still, comment on them).

When I first set out to build an RCP application, I had to declare dependencies to mavenized OSGi-bundles, which very quickly led me to Tycho, a “set of Maven plugins and extensions for building Eclipse plugins and OSGi bundles with Maven”. And while I managed to get my basic build to work relatively quickly with Tycho 0.13.0 (after a few posts to the immensely helpful tycho-user mailing list, a few questions on stackoverflow.com, and a dozen bundles of pulled out hair), I ran into problems with realizing a working cross-platform build.

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