Date: Fri, 12 Dec 2003 05:24:42 -0500 From: Tim Middleton <x@Vex.Net> To: freebsd-java@freebsd.org Subject: next step... azureus Message-ID: <200312021719.38944.x@Vex.Net>
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So, I've been trying to get all the java apps I use on windows to run under FreeBSD. Eclipse works great, thanks to the port (though I too would like to see a 3.0 milestone on FreeBSD as someone recently posted requesting). Moneydance also works fine (just copied the jar file from my windows box and it worked immediately... got to love that... it *almost* does give one hope that "write once, run anywhere" can be true). Next in line is Azureus, but it was proving problematic for my meagre skills. It is a (remarkable) bittorrent client. http://azureus.sourceforge.net But I have got it working. I just wanted to share how I did it, in case anyone else is interested. But more importantaly, perhaps if someone else is interested they could correct my ignorant hacks and share a better way! The complication here seems to be the app uses SWT. What I did was go to their Linux "How-To" page, and followed the link there to bundled jars... http://devurandom.net/azureus/files/ Realising that I'm going to have to try to use the swt libraries from eclipse, and that they are gtk based, I downloaded the latest gtk version of azureus from above (which unfortunately is not the latest release). I unpack it, but of course it does not run so easily. A path must be adjusted in the startup shell script, but more seriously it has linux swtlib*.so files bundled. So the next step was to copy/link what looked like it must be the wanted files from eclipse into my unpacked azureus bundle from devurandom.net above. cp /usr/local/eclipse/plugins/org.eclipse.swt.gtk_2.1.1/ws/gtk/swt*.jar . cp /usr/local/eclipse/plugins/org.eclipse.swt.gtk_2.1.1/os/freebsd/x86/ libswt*.so . Finally, i didn't quite trust the bundled systray4j.jar (figured it would be for gnome/gtk, and i run KDE) so i got a new one for kde from http:// www.sourceforge.net/projects/systray/ and dropped it in. And what do you know. The app runs! However still no joy. It won't connect to the net. )-: I notice the exception message displayed (cut off) in the "tracker status" display... i could read enough to make out that it was advising me for some reason to set net.inet6.ip6.v6only=0 ... hmm. I don't really know what that means but I try it... sysctl -w net.inet6.ip6.v6only=0 And now Azureus is running and able to connect to the net (thanks to that handy exception message in there). Wheh. (Actually the error message also said I could alternately add a -Djava.something.something.something (can't remember the exact class) to my startup command to fix this as well.) There are still some minor oddities and glitches I've noticed, but it seems to be mostly running. For example, all of the many progress bars flash off then on when updating which is fairly annoying... but at least does not hinder any functionality. Stranger than this is that the progress graphs in the "files" tab are all off by one in the table view. That is to say, that each graph is displayed one cell below where it should be. Strange, eh? [update: i did grab the latest .jar file from the main page and dropped it into place after doing all of the above, and it works as described above also. So I'm now running 2.0.4.2] I have actually tried compiling it from CVS source... but failed miserably... there's no handy ant/ make build system... i must have some things mising from my classpath when building, or something. As I said at the beginning... my skills are meagre. Also it may requires SWT 3, i'm not sure. Oh well, it's running, and working, such as it is, and that's something. -- Tim Middleton | Cain Gang Ltd | A man is rich in proportion to the number of x@veX.net | www.Vex.Net | things which he can afford to let alone. HDT
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