[platform-dev] Eclipse 3.2 and Solaris 9 GTK (was: Resolving GTK dependa

[Martin Oberhuber <martin.oberhuber@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Matt,

For future reference, the eclipse.platform newsgroup is the proper
place to ask such questions. If you search that newsgroup for the
term "Solaris" you'll find some interesting posts. I'm cross-posting
my answer to the newsgroup and here:

If you want Solaris-Motif, just grab the eclipse-srcBuild-srcIncluded
and build it yourself. It's much simpler than you'd think since it
builds only the Java part (all natives are precompiled). Works even
on Solaris 7 for me.

If you want Solaris-GTK, it's officially supported on Solaris 10 only,
which (I think) has GTK libraries preinstalled. Inofficially, it should
also work on Solaris 9; for Solaris 9, you can get a GNOME package
right from Sun (package SUNWGtkr), it's version 2.1.0 but works well
for most people. Don't try the version from sunfreeware.com, it sucks
as I've heard :-)

If you're on Solaris 8, you'll be mostly on your own since I think
you'd have to recompile GTK yourself which is pretty hard as I've
heard.

Some reference for Eclipse 3.3 on Solaris, also has some
more information about GTK versions:
https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=186097
https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=177949
https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=172422

Cheers,
--
Martin Oberhuber
Wind River Systems, Inc.
Target Management Project Lead, DSDP PMC Member
http://www.eclipse.org/dsdp/tm

> -----Original Message-----
> From: platform-dev-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxx
> [mailto:platform-dev-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Matthew Gingell
> Sent: Wednesday, May 09, 2007 8:54 PM
> To: platform-dev@xxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [platform-dev] Resolving GTK dependancy on Solaris
>
> Hi,
>
> We've noticed that the Eclipse 3.2 binary distribution download page
> no longer offers an SDK for Solaris-Motif. We are attempting to move
> to the Solaris-GTK distribution, but we are running into
> difficulties
> because we appear not to have the correct GTK libraries available on
> our system.
>
> Specifically, we are getting the error:
>
> ld.so.1: eclipse: fatal: libgobject-2.0.so.0: open failed: No such
> file or directory
> Killed
>
> Could somebody point me to documentation explaining 1) which version
> of GTK Eclipse 3.2 requires and 2) where is the best place to
> pick up
> that GTK distribution?
>
> Thanks very much for your help,
> Matt Gingell
>
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