On Fri, Sep 13, 2019 at 3:06 PM Doloops <dolo...@gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi again,
>
> I didn't mean to offend you about pushing upstream, sorry for this...
>

Not at all :). We all do what we can!


>
> I successfully booted Fedora 30 on my ODroid N2 and installed eclipse
> without any issue at all.
> I even managed to push it back to an Ubuntu Bionic by resolving the
> symlinks pointing at /usr/lib/java/.. (populated by rpms in dependency) and
> that worked like a charm as well,
>
> Thanks at lot !
>
> If I can help in any way... let me know,
>

Enjoy using our Fedora builds :)


>
> Best regards,
>
> Le ven. 13 sept. 2019 à 13:33, Aleksandar Kurtakov <akurt...@redhat.com>
> a écrit :
>
>>
>>
>> On Fri, Sep 13, 2019 at 12:42 PM Doloops <dolo...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi Aleksandar,
>>>
>>> Thanks for the quick response !
>>> I tried to merge the aarch64-specific files from f30 rpms into
>>> eclipse.org's linux x86_64 build with no success, resulting in
>>> a java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: org.eclipse.swt.SWTError.
>>> Not very familiar with the way dependencies are resolved on a OSGi setup
>>>
>>> I don't have a fedora install yet, so I'm getting one now and will play
>>> with it and see Eclipse work from their build.
>>>
>>> Still, I guess I would be able to build from Fedora's (adapted ?)
>>> sources. Shoudn't they push upstream ?
>>>
>>
>> Fedora build is a bit more complicated as it rebuilds everything from
>> source. But doing 'fedpkg build' in respective git checkout (
>> https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/eclipse/) should build everything
>> just fine for fedora.  This work is done by my team and we have contributed
>> everything back to eclipse.org. Only missing part is including aarch64
>> bundles being included in various features and aarch64 product so there is
>> aarch64 zip produced by default by the build system.
>> Btw, you may also try mvn clean verify -Dnatives=gtk.linux.aarch64 in
>> swt.binaries repo. It may work although it has been only tested to work
>> proper on RHEL/Fedora/CentOS.
>>
>>
>>> What is missing ?
>>>
>>
>> what's missing is aarch64 build machine available at foundation (or
>> someone else dedicating a machine accessible through ssh) for builds of the
>> native parts. Due to the way(limitations) eclipse sdk is build there is no
>> way to push the final bits so they can be built by default.
>>
>>
>>>
>>> Thanks in advance,
>>>
>>> Le ven. 13 sept. 2019 à 09:33, Aleksandar Kurtakov <akurt...@redhat.com>
>>> a écrit :
>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Fri, Sep 13, 2019 at 10:28 AM Doloops <dolo...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Hi everyone,
>>>>>
>>>>> Thank you all for this awesome piece of software !
>>>>> Been using Eclipse for more than 10 years now... And I guess the time
>>>>> to participate has begun.
>>>>>
>>>>> I'd like to use Eclipse on an aarch64 box, but it seems the support of
>>>>> this platform is not enabled in the build (and lacking some files), but I
>>>>> wish to contribute to it.
>>>>>
>>>>> May I have some guidance on how to start, and especially what can be
>>>>> reused from previous (2013) works on this matter?
>>>>>
>>>>> My guess would be starting
>>>>> by 
>>>>> eclipse.platform.swt.binaries/bundles/org.eclipse.swt.gtk.linux.aarch64,
>>>>> still digging...
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Hi, there are aarch64 builds available in Fedora. So please first try
>>>> them - it is available in Fedora repository directly (aka 'dnf install
>>>> eclipse') in running Fedora installation on aarch64 system. This is what
>>>> this sources are used for. And let us know of any issues you find - there
>>>> aren't many people interested in it so far.
>>>> Regarding eclipse.org aarch64 builds - there aren't such as there is a
>>>> need for dedicated aarch64 provided to eclipse foundation which can be used
>>>> for building the native parts. So far we don't have such and thus no 
>>>> builds.
>>>>
>>>> Hope that helpse.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Thanks in advance,
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