Using SWT from CVS
*** NOTE: SWT has migrated its source to GIT. ***
SWT lives in Eclipse CVS at dev.eclipse.org.
Running with SWT from CVS takes a bit of work to set up for your platform. Here is a quick guide
to help you get set up.
- First, set up the CVSROOT. Use File > Import... > CVS >
Projects from CVS and enter the information for the Eclipse
CVS server.
- Next, check out the org.eclipse.swt project, where all
the Java code lives, along with the correct binary package for
the DLLs from your platform.
Each platform has a module for the binaries categorized by
toolkit, OS, and CPU architecture. Examples:
| Windows
| org.eclipse.swt.win32.win32.x86
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| Mac OS X
| org.eclipse.swt.cocoa.macosx
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| Linux GTK
| org.eclipse.swt.gtk.linux.x86
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|---|
| Linux Motif
| org.eclipse.swt.motif.linux.x86
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You may also want to check out the org.eclipse.swt.examples and org.eclipse.swt.snippets projects.
- SWT has a different Eclipse .classpath file for each
platform, so we need to set up Eclipse to use the right one.
To do this we first show the Navigator view
(Window > Show View > Navigator).
- Next, we expand org.eclipse.swt and find the
.classpath_xxx file for our platform and copy it to a file named
.classpath.
- After changing a .classpath file, it's usually a good
idea to clean the projects that depend on it to make sure
everyone is cool.
(Note that if you are building for a 64-bit platform, there is an extra step needed.
Please see this FAQ for details).
- We're ready to go! To test our checkout, let's find an SWT
application to run. How about the ControlExample.
- After we've selected the ControlExample.java file, we can run
it using Run > Run As > Java Application.
And there you go!
