Eclipse Linux PPC - what you need is here.

It's easy to get Eclipse to work on Linux PPC, but it's work. So I decided to share my copy of it.

First get your copy of Java 1.4.2 from IBM.

You can get it here at IBM's website. Just use the "iSeries/pSeries 32bit" version, if you have a Macintosh.

And don't forget to set your JAVA_HOME to the place where you installed it and to add your bin directory to the PATH ;-) Here i.e. JAVA_HOME=/opt/IBMJava2-ppc-142 ; PATH=/opt/IBMJava2-ppc-142/bin:$PATH ; export JAVA_HOME PATH

Second you need SWT for Linux PPC.

Here are the resulting SWT-libraries. Please extract them and put them into your jre/bin directory, i.e. /opt/IBMJava2-ppc-142/jre/bin/

Here is the source I used to compile them. I compiled on a Debian Sarge on a Powerbook; please feel free to alter the makefile for other platforms. To compile them for your own, you need GTK and Gnome development libraries as well as Mozilla headers and libraries.

Third you need Eclipse itself.

I already compiled it, just get the precompiled Eclipse from here if you want to. It is the 3.1M1 stream stable build which I used here. And I have added the starter application.

To compile it for your own, just use the source from the Eclipse Homepage. To compile the starter, use the source in plugins/platform-launcher/library/gtk.

If you have Questions...

... please don't hesitate to send me a mail to eclipse-ppc@dingens.org. But unfortunately I'll get no money for this work, I just use it for my own ;-) So please understand, that sometimes it can last a little longer until you'll have an answer.

VB.