eclipse build instructions?

[Greg Hamilton]

I have Eclipse working on my iBook under YDL3.0 using IBM JDK 1.4.1

I had to build it from source. The Java bits build fine but there's  
some GUI stuff written in C which I guess is probably the SWT stuff  
which needs a little tinkering to get it going..

This link gets you most of the way there. It's instructions for  
building the SWT stuff.
http://lists.debian.org/debian-powerpc/2003/debian-powerpc-200304/ 
msg00442.html

I found that this didn't quite work as stated on my machine.  It  
describes modifying a file called make_gtk.mak. Once I'd made all the  
mods described I still got linker errors. Some of the compile and link  
options are guessed using pkg-config. pkg-config returned a few flags  
that ld didn't recognise, which was a bit odd. I manually ran  
pkg-config for each of the packages mentioned in the makefile, then  
pasted the output into the makefile minus that unknown flags and it  
worked.

Get the Eclipse source, follow the instructions above, then do the  
standard Eclipse build as described in the Eclipse build instructions.  
The build took a really long time on my 500Mhz iBook but it does work.

Good luck. If you get stuck let me know.

Greg

On Thursday, July 31, 2003, at 02:43  AM, Michael Welles wrote:

> I've seen some discussion on this list about building eclipse for PPC  
> linux.   I even found a link to a compiled binary.
> Unfortunatly, it doesn't work with either blackdown jdk 1.3.1 or the  
> IBM jdk 1.4.1.
>
> There was also a thread that there was a .txt with build instructions  
> available.   I haven't been able to find it -- there's so many mirrors  
> of the eclipse site, that any eclipe related googling  tends to SPAM  
> the results.
>
>
> I'll be happy to host the binary if I can just get the thing to build.  
>   Can anyone who has gotten it to build give me some pointers?
> I'm flailing away, but not having much luck.
>
>
>
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