[news.eclipse.platform.rcp] Re: Launching headless RCP application witho

[Alex Blewitt <alex_blewitt@xxxxxxxxx>]

The native launcher almost certainly has GTK support because of the splash screen that's shown. If you're not firing that up, it wouldn't seem necessary to have that binding.

However, if it's dynamically linked in, it may not be possible to start it up without GTK being installed. You could instead try launching it via Java instead of using the native launcher, or using your own compiled version.

It might be worth suggesting (via https://bugs.eclipse.org) that an 'eclipsec' which mirrors its Windows counterpart, but without GTK dynamically linked, might be a useful addition if it's not there already.

Alex.