On Nov 16, 2012, at 9:17 AM, Frank Wille <frank%phoenix.owl.de@localhost> wrote: > On Fri, 16 Nov 2012 15:03:37 +0100 > Martin Husemann <martin%duskware.de@localhost> wrote: > >> I'm confused - why is the eclipse pkg not compiling this stuff >> natively? > > Maybe the source is not available, so we use the Linux binaries? > > I have to admit that I have no idea how Eclipse works. I always thought > it is written in Java, but nevertheless there is a Linux binary included > to launch it... > It is written in Java. The problem is that SWT is platform specific. > >> Mixing a native java runtime environment and linux binaries >> sounds like a doomed aproach to me. > > Indeed. :| > > -- > Frank Wille