From owner-freebsd-java Fri Feb 7 6:18: 8 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-java@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 81A2D37B405 for ; Fri, 7 Feb 2003 06:18:07 -0800 (PST) Received: from galilee.polands.org (new-24-208-57-240.new.rr.com [24.208.57.240]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4C2BB43FCB for ; Fri, 7 Feb 2003 06:18:06 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from doug@polands.org) Received: from mydomain.com (samaria.polands.org [172.16.1.17]) by galilee.polands.org (8.12.6/8.12.6) with SMTP id h17EHkIl040707; Fri, 7 Feb 2003 08:17:46 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from doug@polands.org) Received: from 63.104.35.130 (proxying for 164.5.45.79) (SquirrelMail authenticated user djp) by email.polands.org with HTTP; Fri, 7 Feb 2003 08:17:47 -0600 (CST) Message-ID: <50978.63.104.35.130.1044627467.squirrel@email.polands.org> Date: Fri, 7 Feb 2003 08:17:47 -0600 (CST) Subject: Re: Eclipse under FreeBSD From: "Doug Poland" To: In-Reply-To: <200302071348.h17DmHA23296@bonsai.fernuni-hagen.de> References: <200302071348.h17DmHA23296@bonsai.fernuni-hagen.de> X-Priority: 3 Importance: Normal Cc: X-Mailer: SquirrelMail (version 1.2.8) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-java@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Marc Ernst Eddy van Woerkom said: > Hi, > > I did some Java development with Eclipse under Windows. > It is really a cool, producive IDE. > > However I am not able to spot a FreeBSD port of Eclipse. > > Has it not been ported yet? > > If I am mad enough to port it, what would be the best approach? > It needs an 1.3.x JRE, and in the past my experience with the > FreeBSD native JRE port was not the best. > What would you recommend? > - Trying a native port from Eclipse source and the FreeBSD 1.3 > native Java port? > - Porting the linux + motif binaries to FreeBSD? > - Porting the linux + gtk2 binaries to FreeBSD? > I had some success last summer using the linux binary of Eclipse and linux_jdk. There were some problems with CVS connectivity as I recall. Unfortunately, time pressure kept me from fixing these issues and I had to switch to windows :( -- Regards, Doug To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-java" in the body of the message