[kaffe] AWT on GTK+ without X?

Dalibor Topic robilad at kaffe.org
Sun Oct 21 11:33:38 PDT 2007


Robert Schuster wrote:
> Hi.
> 
>> We do not have X on the board. We choosed DirectFB as our Graphics
>> system and we have GTK+ on the top of it. I know that kaffe's
>> AWT implementation is based on GTK+ from GNU Classpath, and X libraries
>> are usually required for GTK+. But since we've built our GTK+ with
>> DirectFB rather than X, is there any way to build kaffe with AWT support
>> on my target?
> Roman Kennke worked on GNU Classpath' Gtk Widgets being usable with
> DirectFB backend.This was done quite recently so I do not know whether
> Kaffe's Classpath snapshot already contains those patches.
> 

They don't (and the snapshot should be finally moving away this week).
But if you build  Kaffe's CVS head to use the system install of
classpath CVS head, you should be able to check it out.

cheers,
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