Re: [sdljava-users] Eclipse success

[Ivan Z. G. <iva...@ya...>]

The mail list server is acting funny so I didn't actually get sent your=20
mail but I see it in the archive.

I will add a switch such that if the System property=20
"sdljava.bootclasspath" is defined no calls will be made to=20
System.loadLibrary to load the libs.  Loading the libs will be up to the=20
users of the library in this case.

Let me know if you find anything else that would be helpfull.

Cheers,
-Ivan/

St=E9phane Meslin-Weber wrote:
 > After two days of very slow progress, I"ve finally managed to get the
 > test scripts for sdljava to run happily from Eclipse - my next hurdle =
is
 > to get Odonata to use the fruits of this labour across Eclipse project=
s...
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 I"ve managed to get an SDL window up from within Odonata code...
 Unfortunately I"ve had to modify some of the auto-generated SWIG files
 to do so.
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 I"ll explain in more detail why this was necessary:
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 - Odonata is a drop-in replacement for native AWT peers, this requires
 it to be loaded on the bootclasspath of the JVM to override some key
 java.awt.* classes.
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 - If Odonata uses sdljava, sdljava also needs to be on the bootclasspath.
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 - It seems that at least on the Sun JVM (1.4.2_05) native libraries
 present on the java.library.path aren"t picked up by classes on the
 bootclasspath (makes sense I suppose) - but then again, nor are they
 picked up in any other location than sun.boot.library.path (and
 modifications to this either have no effect or understandably break the =
JVM)
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 To get around these limitations, I use System.load() with an absolute
 path to the libraries. The various static blocks in sdljava (in SDLMain,
 and SWIG_SDLMainJNI) to be removed to allow me to do the native lib
 loading manually. (I haven"t yet used the other SDL_* libraries).
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 I obviously don"t want to mess with generated files and the presence of
 the static blocks is completely understandable; when sdljava is loaded
 outside the bootclasspath.
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 With the above in mind, I"d like to propose a runtime property that if
 present disables those static blocks so java -Dsdljava.bootclasspath
 would allow people to manually load native libraries.
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 Suggestions are welcome :)
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 Best Regards,
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 Steph


St=E9phane Meslin-Weber wrote:

> Hi Everyone,
>
> After getting everything working fine under mingw I wanted to be able=20
> to use sdljava (CVS) in the same dev environment as I use for Odonata.=20
> (Eclipse 3.1 on WinXP)
>
> After two days of very slow progress, I've finally managed to get the=20
> test scripts for sdljava to run happily from Eclipse - my next hurdle=20
> is to get Odonata to use the fruits of this labour across Eclipse=20
> projects...
>
> Many thanks for starting this project up again!
>
> Best Regards,
>
> Steph
>