Re: GCJ Swing/AWT working on OS X -- article

[Bryce McKinlay <mckinlay at redhat dot com>]

John Gabriele wrote:

> john$ ./bar
> Exception in thread "main" java.awt.AWTError: Cannot load AWT 
> toolkit:  gnu.java.awt.peer.gtk.GtkToolkit
>    <<No stacktrace available>>
> Caused by: java.lang.ClassNotFoundException:  
> gnu.java.awt.peer.gtk.GtkToolkit not found in [file:./, core:/]
>    <<No stacktrace available>>
>
> john$ export CLASSPATH=/usr/local/gcc_cvs/share/java/libgcj-3.5.0.jar
>
> john$ ./bar
> false
> true
> {i.e. it starts up and runs as it should.}


Odd. For some reason the compiled versions of the Gtk AWT peer classes 
couldn't be found. By putting them on the classpath, you'll be running 
interpreted bytecode, not natively compiled code. This will reduce 
performance.

Regards

Bryce