Re: [platform-dev] Recompiling Mac's native launcher

[Mário Marinato <mariomarinato@xxxxxxxxx>]

Thank you very much, Sravan.

Before trying to compile, we had this crazy idea that worked.

At the same time we're maintaining our Eclipse 3-based application, which needed a solution to the menus problem I mentioned in the first email, we're porting it to be Eclipse 4-based.

As the menus problem does not happen on the Eclipse 4 port, and as we had already pin-pointed that the problem is the executable file, we came up with the idea of using the executable of the Eclipse 4-based on the Eclipse 3-based and voilà!  Problem solved.  We can ship the Eclipse 3-based app using the Eclipse 4-based executable.

Sounds like pure WOP - Workaround Oriented Programming?  For sure! 😋  But it won't be like this for long, because our Eclipse 4-based is coming soon.  So we're fine.

Thanks again, Sravan.  And thanks to Lars, too.

Mario Marinato
~ Rio de Janeiro/Brazil

Em ter., 10 de out. de 2023 às 09:19, SRAVAN LAKKIMSETTI <sravankumarl@xxxxxxxxxx> escreveu:

Building native launcher is straight forward. The code is in https://github.com/eclipse-equinox/equinox/tree/master/features/org.eclipse.equinox.executable.feature/library. Switch to cocoa folder and run build.sh. it will build the launcer executable and its companion .so file. Replace them in your existing installation.

 

Prerequisites for this would be latest Xcode with macos SDK to be installed.

 

I hope this helps.

 

Thanks

Sravan

 

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Subject: [EXTERNAL] [platform-dev] Recompiling Mac's native launcher

 

Hello. I'm part of a team that develops an RCP application that is still based on the Eclipse 3 framework. I know we should've migrated years ago, we're porting it now, but the current version of our system is still alive and needs

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Hello.

 

I'm part of a team that develops an RCP application that is still based on the Eclipse 3 framework.

 

I know we should've migrated years ago, we're porting it now, but the current version of our system is still alive and needs maintenance, and that's why I'm here.

 

The recent release of the new MacOS, Sonoma, broke our menus (see here), and we discovered that the source of the problem is the native launcher.  If we launch our application using java -jar plugins/org.eclipse.equinox.launcher.jar, the menus work as expected.

 

We then started building an executable jar that performs the call and handles all the other tasks needed (reading the .ini file, handling restarts, so on).

 

But then this idea came to me, that recompiling the native launcher might solve the problem.  This way, we would not need to mess around with a different executable jar.

 

Do you think this is possible?  If so, is there a page with detailed information on how we could achieve this?

 

Thanks.

 

Mario Marinato
~ Rio de Janeiro/Brazil