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Building plugins on different plaforms [message #157928]

Mon, 17 November 2003 14:01

Eclipse User

Originally posted by: mharp.seapine.com

Hey all,

I've got a plugin that uses the swt.widgets package and I'm wondering if I'm
supposed to be building a copy of my jar plugin on each platform I intend to
support?

The reason I ask is that the swt.jar on Windows is found in
plugins/org.eclipse.swt.win32_2.1.1/ws/win32/swt.jar and I just noticed that
on the Mac install there is a similar folder with carbon names and no win32
folder.

Right now I've been building on Windows, and I've done some minor testing on
Solaris and Linux and my Win32-built jar seems to be working fine on those
platforms. I have a Preferences page that uses the widget classes and the
page works fine on those other platforms so it appears to me that I don't
need to do platform-specific builds of my. Am I missing something that could
come back and bite me? Or can I go along as I've been doing and just build
one jar (on Windows) for all the platforms?

Thanks,

harpstein

Re: Building plugins on different plaforms [message #158582 is a reply to message #157928]

Tue, 18 November 2003 20:01

Eclipse User

Originally posted by: pascal_rapicault.yahoo.fr

If your plugin only uses regular swt classes (it does not use things like
the OLE support), then your plugin is considered to be platform independent
(reads it eclipse independent) and can only be built once.
One example of this in the eclipse family is GEF. It uses SWT and is
platform independent.

PaScaL

"Harpstein" <mharp@seapine.com> a

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