[Swingwt-developers] SwingWT does not compile

[Pierluigi 'L. R. <pie...@gm...>]

Hi,
I'm trying to get SwingWT working under Ubuntu Linux (version 5.10,
"Breezy Badger"). The included version does not work, when I launch
'swingwtdemo' it enters an endless loop of exceptions and it does not
even print the intial boilerplate.

I've tried to download the most recent CVS (as of yersterday) from
sf.net, then I've tried the 2 most recent releases. None of them
compiles out-of-the box neither with the java 1.5 compiler (javac
1.5.0_05) nor with gcj (version 4.0.2 and 4.1).

List of errors:
---------------

** SwingWT-0.87:

[javac] /home/lanugo/download/swingwt/SwingWT-0.87/org/eclipse/swt/browser/Browser.java:815: cannot find symbol
    [javac] symbol  : method error(int)
    [javac] location: class org.eclipse.swt.browser.Browser
    [javac]             if (rc != XPCOM.NS_OK) error(rc);

** SwingWT-0.86.1:

The same problem as above, only this time it happens 96 times.

** CVS:
After some modifications, the code compiles with gcj and javac, but this
is what happens when I run swingwtdemo:

lanugo@ganimede:~/download/swingwt/SwingWT_cvs_2006-03-11$ ./swingwtdemo
This is SwingWT (http://swingwt.sourceforge.net)
Version: 0.88 PRE (110306)[SWT gtk 3138]
Copyright(c)2003-2005, R.Rawson-Tetley and other contributors.

This library is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU
Lesser General Public Licence for more details.
Abortito

(Abortito is aborted in Italian)

Is it possible to obtain a working copy? What causes the abort with the
current cvs? I've tried to juggle with gcj options (adding
-findirect-dispatch), but to no avail.

Thank you,
Pierluigi Rolando