Re: [platform-swt-dev] gtk port

[Havoc Pennington <hp@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Havoc Pennington <hp@xxxxxxxxxx> writes: 
>  - this may simply be my lack of Java skills, but I'm not sure how to
>    go from changing some of the code in the downloaded zip, to running
>    a new executable based on my modified copy.  Can someone point me
>    in the right direction? How do I test changes?

So I discovered anoncvs is available, which seems more promising than
the zip download, but am still getting nowhere on building the
thing. Surely there is a script that compiles/installs the IDE? I see
these build.properties files, what reads those? Should I be using
Eclipse itself to build Eclipse? Which of the modules listed in
CVSROOT/modules do I need to get started?

The web site has tons of docs on developing plugins and such, but I
can't find any docs at all that simply list which modules to grab from
CVS, and how to build/install the code after I have them.

I've found the "platform-launcher" module and run build.csh, but that
just generates a C executable that doesn't work - I run it as follows:

   $ ./eclipse -vm /opt/IBMJava2-13/bin/java
   Warning: Couldn't load the pixmap /mnt/space/cvs/eclipse-cvs/platform-launcher/library/motif/./splash/C/splash_full.xpm.

   Warning: Couldn't load the pixmap /mnt/space/cvs/eclipse-cvs/platform-launcher/library/motif/./splash/C/splash_full.xpm.

   Warning: Couldn't load the pixmap /mnt/space/cvs/eclipse-cvs/platform-launcher/library/motif/./splash/splash_full.xpm.

   Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: org/eclipse/core/launcher/Main

So my grep attempts aren't finding this class in the source code -
where does it live? find -name splash_full.xpm also turns up nothing -
where can I find that?

Sorry for the no doubt clueless questions, I'm sure it's all obvious
once someone points it out. ;-) Are there docs somewhere on this topic?

Havoc