RE: Question regarding OpenBiomind-GUI on OSX

[Bhavesh Sanghvi]

Hello Frederik,

I did not try it on OS X environment. I used Java 6 32-bit while
development.

I am also sending this e-mail to OpenBiomind groups just to check if someone
else used it on OS X.

It may be possible to create a release for 64-bit OS X (but I am not sure)
depending on if Eclipse supports it.

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Best regards,
Bhavesh Sanghvi

-----Original Message-----
From: Frederik Baumgardt [mailto:mam0...@studserv.uni-leipzig.de]
Sent: Tuesday, March 24, 2009 7:41 AM
To: bsan...@cs.iastate.edu
Subject: Question regarding OpenBiomind-GUI on OSX

Hello Bhavesh,

first off - sorry for being so nosy and contacting you this way about
an old project of yours. I hope my question is simple enough for you
to just drop a quick reply between the tasks that you're probably
juggling at the moment.

I am just wondering if anyone got your OpenBiomind GUI working in an
OSX environment. My experience is that it obviously doesn't work with
the 32-bit 1.5 JVM, but the 64-bit 1.6 JVM also crashes on me. From
what i gathered, it's related to the 32-bit SWT-Framework that Eclipse
depends on... If you or any user devised a method to get it working
anyway, i'd be very thankful to hear about it.

Cheers!
Frederik

[Murilo Saraiva de Queiroz]

Eclipse do support 64-bit OS X. In order to run it on OS X it would be necessary to build OpenBiomind GUI specifically for it, because of the dependency on SWT. I believe you *can* use the Java 5 32-bit JVM on OS X, but the specific build is required because of the SWT native libraries.

Eclipse is capable of generating builds for other platforms (i.e. you can generate a OS X 64-bit build in a Windows 32-bit machine) if you install the Eclipse Delta Pack (which contains the OS-specific components). I believe Bhavesh used it to build the Linux version in Windows.

When working in another project I noticed that the delta pack isn't working very well in the latest releases (Eclipse 3.4 and 3.4.1), at least for doing Win32 builds in Linux, so probably it's safer to use the old Eclipse 3.3 (used in OpenBiomind GUI development, in 2008).

Bhavesh, do you have the time to try to build it ? If not, perhaps Frederik could try to do it, downloading Eclipse for OS X and building from the sources...

Best,

muriloq

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[Bhavesh Sanghvi]

These days, I am trying to complete my thesis. Hence, I am not sure if I will be able to build it soon.

Whenever I find time I will try to build and release other builds available with Eclipse delta pack (but this may not be soon).

 

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Best regards,

Bhavesh Sanghvi