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

[Tom Schindl <tom.schindl@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Mark Dexter schrieb:
> Mark Dexter wrote:
> > There are instructions for running SWT applications in Windows at 
> > http://www.eclipse.org/swt/examples.php (Running standalone SWT 
> > Examples outside of eclipse).
> >
> > In these instructions, it says if you are running eclipse 3.3 or 
> > higher, to skip the part about copying the 3 dll files (e.g., 
> > swt-awt-win32-xxxx.dll and 2 others) to the plugins directory and skip 
> > the -Djava.library.path=.
> >
> > Also, these dll files used to be included in the SWT download (e.g., 
> > swt-3.2.2-win32-win32-x86.zip) but aren't included in the 3.3 
> > download. So I take it they have been replaced or are no longer needed?
> >
> > 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 

yes.

> 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

That's quite easy, when an SWT class is loaded those .dlls, .sos, ... 
are extracted from the swt.jar to a temporary directory and loaded from 
there :-)

Tom


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Tom Schindl                                          JFace-Committer
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