Date: Sun, 27 Mar 2005 10:40:51 -0800 From: Alex Varju <varju@webct.com> To: Panagiotis Astithas <past@ebs.gr> Cc: java <freebsd-java@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: eclipse Message-ID: <4246FE33.2090608@webct.com> In-Reply-To: <4246D3C5.5060303@ebs.gr> References: <424490CD.9080203@chuckr.org> <4246D3C5.5060303@ebs.gr>
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Panagiotis Astithas wrote: > If you can get it to work, I'd say that option #1 is not selfish, but > quite helpful for everyone else, indeed! Please give it a shot, the > eclipse port is supposed to be compilable with jdk>=1.4. See the > following lines in the port's Makefile: > > USE_JAVA= yes > JAVA_VERSION= 1.4+ > JAVA_OS= native > > You can start by changing the following line: > > ONLY_FOR_ARCHS= i386 > > in the same file, to: > > ONLY_FOR_ARCHS= i386 amd64 > > and see how far you get from there. Nobody has tried building eclipse > for amd64 with jdk1.5 yet AFAIK, but that doesn't mean it can't be done. > And of course, don't forget to post any patches you come up with :-) I've actually been fighting with getting Eclipse to compile for a few days now, and haven't gotten there yet. Things seem to be going wrong in the native extensions, but I can't seem to get a decent stack trace out of it. Digging through the Eclipse code, it looks like they use different Java files for the native extensions when building Linux x86_64. I'll try to post my experiences in more detail later today. Alex.
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