[news.eclipse.newcomer] Re: Howto export swt to jar

[Canned <user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Paul A. Rubin schreef:
> Canned wrote:
>> Paul A. Rubin schreef:
> 
>>> 1.  Do you have swt.jar and the required swt.whatever.dll in the
>>> directory in which you're trying to run program.jar?
>>>
>> I've already copied swt.jar to the same directory as program.jar and I
>> don't know if I need any dll to execute my program. I've added
>> org.eclipse.swt to my build path, added swt.jar to libraries, and in
>> order and export all items are checked (swt.jar, jre system library,
>> org.eclipse.swt) but still don't work.
> 
> Assuming you're on Windows, you will need the swt DLL file to execute
> the program outside Eclipse.  Step 5a of
> http://blog.redditech.com/professional/solution-to-problem-running-swt-app-from-jar/
> 
> mentions it (although they say you can pull it out of swt.jar, which is
> news to me -- my copy of swt.jar does not contain it).  The DLL file
> came with the SWT package, so I imagine it's on your system somewhere.
> This probably has nothing to do with the NoClassDefFoundError though.
> 
>>> 2.  If you execute java -cp "swt.jar;." -jar program.jar, does that
>>> work?
>>>
>> Still give me the same error.
> 
> Hmm.  How about java -cp "./program.jar;./swt.jar;." editor.editor?
> 
> /Paul

Hi,
I've just downloaded and install eclipse europa yesterday. Creating the
same project, then create jar file from it and it's just work right
away. It's kinda weird that I can't get it work in 3.2.

Thanks for your help.