HOWTO: getting BISS-JDE to run.
Stephen Crane
kaffe@rufus.w3.org
Wed, 26 Aug 1998 18:06:21 +0100
Hello world,
Well, it's not easy, but there *is* enough information out there to get
the BISS-JDE working. Here's what I had to do.
For this you will need:
* An installed kaffe 1.0, with X11 and libjpeg support.
(I used today's (26/8) snapshot.)
* biss-awt-0_94.zip and biss-jde-0_94(1).zip
* Sun's classes.zip. I used the one from the win32 jdk1.1.6
* Patience (unless you have a fast link to the 'net, o tempora, o mores)
The Method:
* Create a directory somewhere (I used /home/scrane/java); unzip biss-awt
and biss-jde into it. Set your CLASSPATH. Mine looks like:
% printenv CLASSPATH
/usr/local/share/kaffe/Klasses.jar:/usr/local/share/kaffe/pizza.jar:.:/home/scrane/java/lib:/mnt/dos/jdk1.1.6/lib/classes.zip
* Follow Peter's instructions from his message entitled "Re: BISS JDE ?"
The file to be edited is, on my machine,
/home/scrane/java/src/biss/awt/ScrollablePane.java
(My copy of this file requires line 268, not 272, to be patched.)
* Compile this file:
javac ScrollablePane.java
* Copy ScrollablePane.class to the right place:
cp ScrollablePane.class ../../../lib/biss/awt/
Now try and figure out how it all works! Any clues, Peter?? (You can
grep for "static void main" in the sources, but since there's a lot of
code-generation this is not as helpful as it might otherwise have been.)
The most meaningful thing I could find was CUViewer. Strangely enough,
Jde.class has no main!
Later,
Steve