Unable to run

[PerfectReign]

New to Eclipse / SWT / SWT-Designer. I just started messing with it.

I installed the designer on my Suse 9.3 system running Java 1.5.0_04 and Eclipse 3.1.0. I have the 4.1.1 version of SWT-designer. When I try to run a test app, I am unable since I cannot find the libraries for GTK in the plugins directory.

Under .com.swtdesigner_4.1.1/os/linux/x86 I only have the file, libshot.so.

I do have the win32 DLL under com/swtdesigner_4.1.1/os/win32/x86.


Is there something that should've been installed and didn't get it?

[Eric Clayberg]

I installed the designer on my Suse 9.3 system running Java 1.5.0_04 and Eclipse 3.1.0. I have the 4.1.1 version of SWT-designer. When I try to run a test app, I am unable since I cannot find the libraries for GTK in the plugins directory.

What error are you getting?

How are your running your app? Are you using the Eclipse "Run As > SWT Application" command?

Designer does not require provide or require any runtime components.

[PerfectReign]

Ah, that was it - I didn't do run as SWT, I was trying to run as Java app. Thanks. I had a tutorial somewhere which said this, but have since lost the link.

[evan]

i am having a similar problem in ubuntu (hoary):

bringing up the designer invokes the following error dialog:

/usr/local/eclipse/plugins/com.swtdesigner_5.0.1/os/linux/x86/libshot.so: libpangocairo-1.0.so.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

using ldd on libshot, i found the following missing dependencies:
libpangocairo-1.0.so.0 => not found
libcairo.so.2 => not found

searching the ubuntu package repository, it appears that hoary and eariler don't have libpangocairo, but breezy and later (dapper, edgy) have it.

hoary is about 2 years old, so probably older distros (gtk versions?) will have similar problems.

-Evan

[Eric Clayberg]

I don't know anything about ubuntu, but it sounds like you will need to use a newer distribution.

[evan]

right.... sorry, i guess the codenames make it unclear:

> but breezy and later (dapper, edgy) have it.

dapper (6.06) is the current release and edgy is the next release. presumably this problem won't occur on them. (if anybody cares, dapper has Eclipse nicely packaged out-of-the-box.)

it is failing for hoary (v4.10) and eariler.

i checked the debian repository. this library does NOT exist in debian "stable", but is available in the "testing" and "unstable" repositories.

also, this is only with 5.01, not with the 5.0 GA, which works fine.

-Evan

[Eric Clayberg]

this is only with 5.01, not with the 5.0 GA, which works fine.

Try this with v5.1.0.

[evan]

so, i upgraded from ubuntu Hoary (5.04) to Dapper (6.06).

i was getting the same (well, similar) error:
/usr/local/eclipse/plugins/com.swtdesigner_6.0.0/os/linux/x86/libshot.so: libglitz.so.1: cannot open shared object file: No such file or dir

It appears many of the cairo libraries are now in Dapper, so the previous issues are fixed.

Unfortunately, libglitz isn't in Dapper. But the one from Edgy (6.10) works straight away.
You can download it directly from Ubuntu (http://packages.ubuntu.com/edgy/libs/libglitz1.html) and install it with dpkg.

[Eric Clayberg]

You can download it directly from Ubuntu (http://packages.ubuntu.com/edgy/libs/libglitz1.html) and install it with dpkg.

The issue with libglitz.so was already addressed last week, so there should be no need to install libglitz.so, if you are using the latest Designer build.