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Equinox launcher: not working on Mac OS 10.4 Tiger? [message #667832]

Mon, 02 May 2011 11:54

J.-P. Pellet

Messages: 71
Registered: July 2009

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I've had complains of clients that my RCP app won't launch on Mac OS
10.4 Tiger, even though they have a working install of Java 5. It seems
the launcher itself displays a message that it needs at least 10.5. It
is true (I have no access to a 10.4 machine), and if so, is there a way
around it?

Cheers,
J.-P.

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Re: Equinox launcher: not working on Mac OS 10.4 Tiger? [message #667869 is a reply to message #667832]

Mon, 02 May 2011 14:02

Grant Gayed

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Registered: July 2009

Senior Member

I think the Carbon-based Eclipse/SWT should work on OS X 10.4. The
Cocoa-based Eclipse/SWT will definitely not run on OS X versions earlier
than 10.5, no reasonable workarounds available.

Grant

"J.-P. Pellet" <jpp-mac@gmx.net> wrote in message
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> I've had complains of clients that my RCP app won't launch on Mac OS 10.4
> Tiger, even though they have a working install of Java 5. It seems the
> launcher itself displays a message that it needs at least 10.5. It is true
> (I have no access to a 10.4 machine), and if so, is there a way around it?
>
> Cheers,
> J.-P.

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Re: Equinox launcher: not working on Mac OS 10.4 Tiger? [message #667986 is a reply to message #667869]

Tue, 03 May 2011 08:37

J.-P. Pellet

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Registered: July 2009

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Thanks for the information, Grant. Is it a limitation of the launcher or
of Cocoa SWT, too? Does this definitely mean I have to create two
separate builds — one in Carbon for 10.4 and one in Cocoa for 10.5 and 10.6?

Cheers,
J.-P.

On 02.05.11 16:02, Grant Gayed wrote:
> I think the Carbon-based Eclipse/SWT should work on OS X 10.4. The
> Cocoa-based Eclipse/SWT will definitely not run on OS X versions earlier
> than 10.5, no reasonable workarounds available.
>
> Grant

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Re: Equinox launcher: not working on Mac OS 10.4 Tiger? [message #668046 is a reply to message #667986]

Tue, 03 May 2011 13:58

Grant Gayed

Messages: 2150
Registered: July 2009

Senior Member

SWT's Cocoa implementation uses a lot native API that is only available in
10.5 and newer. The launcher just does the OS version check to give advance
warning of this. If supporting OS X 10.4 is important then you'll
definitely need a version of your app that uses Carbon-based SWT/Eclipse
under the covers.

Grant

"J.-P. Pellet" <jpp-mac@gmx.net> wrote in message
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> Thanks for the information, Grant. Is it a limitation of the launcher or
> of Cocoa SWT, too? Does this definitely mean I have to create two separate
> builds

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