Installation Instructions for Eclipse/SWT

The JControl/IDE uses the Standard Widget Toolkit (http://www.eclipse.org/swt) from the Eclipse Project for generating the Graphical User Interface.

NOTE: If you choose one of the fully integrated installer packages, the Eclipse/SWT libraries are installed automatically. Otherwise, please follow the installation procedure described below.

Windows 98/NT/2000/XP:

To install the Standard Widget Toolkit on Windows platforms, please download the SWT binaries for Windows 98/NT/2000/XP from the JControl Download Section.

Installation procedure:

•  unpack swt-*-win32.zip,
  
•  copy swt*.dll to %JAVA_HOME%\bin,
  (%JAVA_HOME% is the folder where JRE is installed on your system; e.g. c:\Program Files\Java\j2re1.4.1_01)
  
•  copy swt.jar to %JAVA_HOME%\lib\ext
  

Linux:

Please note that the Standard Widget Toolkit for Linux platforms needs the GTK2 Toolkit. Make sure that GTK2 is installed on your Linux System, then download the SWT binaries for Linux from the JControl Download Section.

Installation procedure:

•  unpack the archive: swt-*-linux-gtk.zip
  
•  copy libswt*.so to %JAVA_HOME%/jre/lib/i386,
  (%JAVA_HOME% is the folder where JRE is installed on your system; e.g. /usr/local/j2sdk1.4.1_01),
  
•  copy swt.jar to %JAVA_HOME%/jre/lib/ext