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Re:Change of scope and target market for i386 by rwmj on Friday September 29, 2017 @05:20PM (#15369328)
Is Eclipse still written in Java? I wonder why architecture support has to be added at all.
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Re:Change of scope and target market for i386 by rhencke on Friday September 29, 2017 @05:24PM (#15369358)
There very may well be other reasons, but a large one is that Eclipse is written using SWT, not AWT/Swing.

SWT is Java, and has a platform-independent API, but has platform-specific implementations. (SWT JARs are unique per OS/architecture)

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Re:Change of scope and target market for i386 by leggomylibro on Friday September 29, 2017 @06:53PM (#15369945)
I actually tried to build it from source.

Oh, god. What a monstrosity of a build system. And the documentation (or lack thereof)...here there be tygers.

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