[news.eclipse.platform.swt] Re: Running SWT Outside Eclipse Instructions

[Barrie Treloar <baerrach@xxxxxxxxx>]

Mark Dexter wrote:
> Mark Dexter wrote:
> > Is there a document that explains how this now works in 3.3? Where is 
> > the platform-specific layer for SWT called from? Thanks. Mark
>
> Hi. I think I answered my own question. The DLL files are now included 
> in the SWT.JAR file for Windows. So I take it that some Java magic takes 
> place that allows SWT applications to find the DLL's inside the SWT.JAR 
> file. So we only need the platform-specific SWT.JAR file in the 
> Class-Path of the manifest to run SWT app's and we don't need to worry 
> about DLL files. Is this correct? Is this documented somewhere? Thanks. 
> Mark

If you find out more about this, please post back.

I have found for 3.2.2 that the SWT jar files are extracted into the 
OSGi container and Eclipse will automagically have that path included in 
-Djava.library.path.

The problem I have is that we are building an RCP 3.2.0 distribution 
(with a previous version of SWT) in an Eclipse 3.2.2 IDE and it can't 
find the SWT dlls.  I could find nothing on the internet about this.
In the end I upgraded our RCP to 3.2.2 and now the dlls match my GUI 
tests can be run inside Eclipse.