Win32 SWT Problem

Fri Jan 31 22:03:00 GMT 2003

DCH> I've been corresponding with Erik Poupaert on this. His advice
DCH> suggests that my problem is due to not having VC.NET installed
DCH> on this machine. Would you agree that VC.NET is required?
>>>>>>> VC.NET is not required unless you are trying to build the DLL
itself.
If you want rebuild the dll itself, or statically link with it, you still
don't forcibly need VC.NET.
As I wrote to you, Ranjit Matthew patched the minGW/GCC win32 headers and
added the missing symbols, so that GCC/minGW can compile the native SWT jni
sources: http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/java/2003-01/msg00035.html. These patches
have independently also been added to the minGW win32 libs and header files
in CVS, by someone else.
I know for sure, however, that these things won't compile with VC6.
If the SWTcontrolexample works on your machine, you can use the Ant files I
sent to you to rebuild it on your machine, and see if it works for you.
There is, however, no one-single-standard-approved-way of building these
things. You can get the same results, or similar results in completely
different ways.