[kaffe] SwingWT (cvs) now runs on Kaffe!

[Arnaud Vandyck]

jserv at linux2.cc.ntu.edu.tw writes:

> Hi all,
>
>   I am glad to inform the news that I successfully made SwingWT running
> on KaffeVM without modifying any Kaffe's code. Be sure to use cvs
> version of both KaffeVM and SwingWT (I worked on 0.81 PRE-260304), and
> modify the build.xml to use jike as java compiler to ensure correct
> bytecodes. After build process completed, write a script like this:

Excellent!

> jserv at venux:~/expr/SwingWT$ cat run-demo 
> #!/bin/sh
> export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=`pwd`/lib/linux_gtk2:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH
>
> /opt/bin/kaffe -cp lib/linux_gtk2/swt-mozilla.jar:lib/linux_gtk2/swt.jar:lib/linux_gtk2/swt-pi.jar:lib/swingwt.jar \
>         -Xss 128M \
>         demo.Everything
>
> Notice that Kaffe must run with the runtime flag -Xss 128M to ensure enough 
> JNI stack for running SwingWT. I took some screenshots:
>
>   http://jserv.sayya.org/kaffe/screenshots/swingwt-demo.png
>   http://jserv.sayya.org/kaffe/screenshots/swingwt-set.png
>   http://jserv.sayya.org/kaffe/screenshots/swingwt-set2.png
>   http://jserv.sayya.org/kaffe/screenshots/swingwt-mdi.png

Many thanks for your tests and screenshots!

Dalibor, what about integrating swingwt in kaffe as an option in
compilation? ;-)

Cheers,

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