| [platform-swt-dev] Building SWT outside of Eclipse... |
I've been trying to figure out how to build SWT from source (both .java and .c) from the CVS without having eclipse installed. From the instructions I've been able to find, I need to get into the "bin" directory and run the library/build.csh (I'm building on linux, though I would also like to be able to do an OS/X build). From what I can tell the Eclipse build process builds the "bin" directory itself, and in order to build the libarary, rather than doing this from the ant using the included build.xml. What I gather is that the eclipse build process knows something about my system, and creates the bin/library directory and populates it based on that (it appears to know to copy certain files and compile certain files). I've so far been able to build swt.jar and swt-pi.jar (just the Java side of SWT) for gtk by checking out org.eclipse.swt.gtk and running ant in there. I have also been able to build the *.so for linux/gtk by doing this: cd org.eclipse.swt mkdir bin/library cp ../../Eclipse\ SWT/common/library/*.* . cp ../../Eclipse\ SWT\ PI/gtk/library/*.* . make -f make_gtk.mak IVE_HOME=/usr/lib/j2sdk1.3 JAVA_JNI="/usr/lib/j2sdk1.3/include -I/usr/lib/j2sdk1.3/include/linux" apparently, the extra make options are required because my jdk is: java version "1.3.1" Java(TM) 2 Runtime Environment, Standard Edition (build Blackdown-1.3.1-FCS) Java HotSpot(TM) Client VM (build Blackdown-1.3.1-FCS, mixed mode) This seems a little complex (though not terribly so) for people that would like to use swt on its own. It would be nice if there were a way to do something similar to: configure --java-home=$JAVA_HOME --prefix=/usr/local; make; make install of SWT, and have this work. Is this functionality there and I just missed it? I have yet to figure out how to do something equivalent for the OS/X port (though I haven't tried very hard, I'm trying to help an OS/X friend through the process). Thanks for your time, mike -- You shall judge of a man by his foes as well as by his friends. -- Joseph Conrad Michael R. Head burner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx gpg: http://group.cs.brandeis.edu/~burner/gpg.key.txt
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