Re: Java - Eclipse 3.0 Support (SWT) on PowerPc

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Jan-Hendrik Palic wrote:
> Hi ... 
>
> On Sun, Mar 07, 2004 at 02:49:38PM +0000, Michael Rex wrote:
>
> > Quoth Fabio Poroli <poroli@switch.ch>:
> >
> > > Is somebody using Eclipse 3.0M... on a PowerPc - Linux?
> > > I tried few times to build SWT but without success.
> > > Any hints building it ?
> >
> > I just recently found this document:
> > http://www.stefanheimann.net/tutorials/installing-eclipse-linuxppc.txt
> >
> > It describes compiling the SWT libraries to get Eclipse 2.0 running. I
> > managed to build the libraries for 2.1, but I don't know if the same
> > will work with Eclipse 3.0.
>
>
> You need j2sdk1.4 for Eclipse 3.x. Therefor, you will not be able to get
> eclipse 3.x running on LinuxPPC, because, there are no j2sdk packages.
>
> Perhaps, you can run eclipse 3.0 with gcj/gij ... look at this:
>
> 	http://klomp.org/mark/gij_eclipse/

Eclipse2 seems to work ok-ish (excpet for the ocassional bug and 
unimplemented feature in the class library) with Kaffe 1.1.4 on 
i386-linux, I'd assume that it's similar on ppc-linux (thought the 
interpreter may not be such a great choice for speed). I haven't tried 
eclipse 3 recently.

cheers,
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