eclipse

[Alex Varju]

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.