Possible to package without Eclipse?

What does your command look like?

The building and packaging is all done through the Monkey C (<sdkroot>/bin/monkeyc) command line compiler tool; the Eclipse plug-in simply executes a command line build. If you have the command setup correctly you should be able to package from the plug-in or the command line with the same result. Each time a build occurs in the plug-in the command that's executed is printed to console so you could import your project into Eclipse to see what command is run by the plug-in to test if your command is correct.

I imported the ActivityTracking sample into Eclipse and ran the package tool. These are the options it's adding to the compiler call:
-e
-a C:\connectiq-sdk-win-1.1.0\bin\api.db
-i C:\connectiq-sdk-win-1.1.0\bin\api.debug.xml
-o C:\export\ActivityTracker.iq
-w
-z C:\ActivityTracking\resources\strings.xml;C:\ActivityTracking\resources\resources.xml;C:\ActivityTracking\resources\bitmaps.xml
-m C:\ActivityTracking\manifest.xml
-u C:\connectiq-sdk-win-1.1.0\bin\devices.xml
-p C:\connectiq-sdk-win-1.1.0\bin\projectInfo.xml
C:\ActivityTracking\source\ActivityTrackerView.mc C:\ActivityTracking\source\ActivityTracker.mc


Ah, thank you for pasting the command there, I've got it to build now. Knowing it was even possible made a big difference. (I haven't looked at Eclipse at all, so sorry if the above was actually obvious to everyone else...)

I'm glad you got things working. You shouldn't be seeing a NullPointerException if you don't provide an icon (the launcher icon is optional so at worst you should see a warning if the -w flag is used when compiling). I'll file a bug report to investigate this. What version of Connect IQ are you compiling with?

Sorry, I was changing so much stuff in an effort to get it to work, that was wrong too :-( I've verified it now. If I do:
$ monkeyc -e -o bin/HrWidget.iq -w -z resources/strings.xml:resources/bitmaps.xml -m manifest.xml src/HrWidget.mc
it works, but if I do:
$ monkeyc -e -o HrWidget.iq -w -z resources/strings.xml:resources/bitmaps.xml -m manifest.xml src/HrWidget.mc
(i.e. trying to build into the current directory)
I get:
Error:null
usage: monkeyc [-a <arg>] [-b] [-d <arg>] [-e] [-g] [-i <arg>] [-k] [-m
<arg>]
[-n <arg>] [-o <arg>] [-p <arg>] [-q] [-r] [-u <arg>] [-w]
[-x <arg>] [-z
<arg>]
-a,--apidb <arg> API import file
-b,--buildapi Build API output files
-d,--device <arg> Target device (default: square_watch_sim)
-e,--package-app Create an application package.
-g,--debug Print debug output
-i,--import-dbg <arg> Import api.debug.xml
-k,--write-db Write out the api.db file
-m,--manifest <arg> Manifest file
-n,--api-version <arg> The new API version
-o,--output <arg> Output file to create
-p,--project-info <arg> projectInfo.xml file to use when compiling
-q,--carray Write output as a C array (deprecated)
-r,--release Strip debug information
-u,--devices <arg> devices.xml file to use when compiling
-w,--warn Show compiler warnings
-x,--excludes <arg> Add annotations to the exclude list
-z,--rez <arg> Resource file
java.lang.NullPointerException
at com.garmin.monkeybrains.Monkeybrains.packageApplication(Monkeybrains.java:346)
at com.garmin.monkeybrains.Monkeybrains.main(Monkeybrains.java:895)

This is with Connect IQ 1.1.0 for the Mac.

I've updated the bug report. Thanks for the info.

This bug fix was included in the 1.1.2 SDK release.

I'm running Windows SDK v1.2.9 and the bug is still there. You must specify a directory for -o app.prg, even if it is just -o .\app.prg

Otherwise you get Error:null

This issue was raised by a developer yesterday and should be fixed with the next SDK release. The compiler is using Java's File.getParentFile() API which can return null if a relative path doesn't specify a parent.