[Java-gnome-developer] Problems running Java-Gnome v0.5.0 on Solaris 8 (SPARC).

[Rich B. <Ric...@en...>]

Hi all,

I've just started looking at the Java-Gnome code. I'm using Solaris 8 on
a SPARC machine (maybe the first to do that?), so this might be the cause 
of my problems.

I'll give the error I'm seeing first, then I'll explain things in more
detail.

I've built Java-Gnome, and when I try to run TestGTK, I get:

stard[88] java TestGTK
ld.so.1: /spare/jgtk/jdk1.3/bin/../bin/sparc/native_threads/java: fatal: 
relocation error: file /spare/dist-jgtk/lib/libGTKJava.so.0.5.0: symbol 
gtk_init: referenced symbol not found
Killed
stard[89]

I looked through the archives for this list on www.geocrawler.com, and found:

http://www.geocrawler.com/archives/3/7036/2000/11/0/4714386/    and
http://www.geocrawler.com/archives/3/7036/2000/11/0/4714543/

but I'm not running with two different JDK's here, so I don't think that's 
the problem.

Okay. More details.

* I'm using JDK 1.3. This I believe would have been compiled with the Sun
  native compilers.

* I've got gtk+ 1.2.8 and glib 1.2.8, and I've compiled them both with
  Gnu v2.95.2.

* I grabbed:
  http://download.sourceforge.net/java-gnome/java-gtk-0.5.0.tar.gz
  and compiled that with Gnu v2.95.2. My hacked up build script contains
  the following commands:

    % cp src/other/Callback.java src/gtk
    % cp src/other/GListString.java src/gtk
    % cp src/other/GtkObject.java src/gtk
    % cp src/other/callback_dispatcher.c src/glue
    % ln -s lib/gtk-0.5.0.jar lib/gtk.jar

    % ./configure --with-gtk-only --prefix=/spare/dist-jgtk
    % gmake
    % gmake install

* When I try "java TestGTK" I get the results above.

I took it a little further. I tried:

stard[111] ldd libGTKJava.so.0.5.0
warning: ldd: libGTKJava.so.0.5.0: is not executable

on the installed libGTKJava library. I was expecting to see some other
library dependencies here.

I then did a nm on that library, looking for gtk_init references and I get

stard[134] nm libGTKJava.so.0.5.0 | fgrep gtk_init
[671]	|         0|       0|NOTY |GLOB |0    |UNDEF  |gtk_init

I then found an application of mine (compiled with Gnu 2.95.2) that links
against the Gtk+ library, and tried the same thing:

stard[128] nm mptool | fgrep  gtk_init
[234]	|    239712|       0|FUNC |GLOB |0    |UNDEF  |gtk_init

Now this might be the difference between an application and shared 
library usage, but I though I'd mention it.

If the answer to my problem isn't obvious, then I suppose there are a 
couple things I can try:

1/ Recompile gtk+, glib and java-gnome with the Sun native compilers and 
   see if that changes anything.

2/ Check out the very latest java-gnome source code from the CVS repository 
   and see if that improves anything.

I thought I'd post the problem here before doing either of these.

Any advice would be very much appreciated.

Thanks.

PS: www.geocrawler.com only has archives for this mailing list for November 
    and December 2000. Are there later archives that I can look at?

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