Re: Eclipse port

[Tero Koskinen <tkoskine_(_at_)_students_(_dot_)_cc_(_dot_)_tut_(_dot_)_fi>]

On Mon, 26 Apr 2004 15:50:50 -0400
"Ian F. Darwin" <ian_(_at_)_darwinsys_(_dot_)_com> wrote:

> Eclipse may take some work because, although we have a full Java (well, 
> at least 1.3), [...] either Motif or GTK. [...] Linux emulation.
> So, if you are using, say, jdk/1.3-linux, [...] binary like
> elcipse-SDK-3.0Mx-linux-gtk.zip or ...-linux-motif.zip

I have got Eclipse 2.1.3 working on OpenBSD using jdk13 and Redhat Motif
libraries under Linux emulation.

% pkg_info | grep -i linux
jdk-linux-1.3.1_10  Java Development Kit for Java 2 Standard Edition 1.3
redhat_base-8.0p4   Linux compatibility package based on RedHat 8.0
redhat_motif-2.1.30p0 Motif toolkit Linux libraries
% dmesg | head -1
OpenBSD 3.5 (Celeron466-RAID) #0: Sun Mar 21 16:05:47 EET 2004

And the Eclipse version was: eclipse-SDK-2.1.3-linux-motif.zip

> It should work, but I have not tried this and do not expect it to be a 
> drop-in.

Actually it is pretty much a drop-in if you have jdk-linux working.
Just download that zip-archive, uncompress it to some directory and
run it with command:
/path/to/eclipse -vm /usr/local/jdk1.3.1-linux/bin/java -vmargs -Xmx200M -Xms30M

With default resource limit settings Eclipse will run out of memory
very soon, so you need to raise your limits some.

Since my computer is only 466 MHz Celeron with 224 MB ram and Eclipse
runs very slowly on it, I have done only some basic HelloWorld testing,
but it seems to be stable.

-- 
Tero Koskinen - tkoskine_(_at_)_students_(_dot_)_cc_(_dot_)_tut_(_dot_)_fi