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google-web-toolkit - issue #91

Mac OS X support for Google Web Toolkit


Posted on Sep 25, 2006 by Massive Rabbit

Currently, GWT only supports Windows 2000/XP and Linux (GTK 2.2.1+). GWT does not support Mac OS X.

Workaround if you have one: The a GWT hosted web browser does not run on Mac OS X because it depends on native code to hook back into the Java Virtual Machine. However, the GWT compiler is implemented entirely in Java, so it should run properly on Mac OS X or any platform that runs the Java VM (as far as we know).

In practice, this means you will be able to compile from Java to JavaScript on Mac OS X (by running the <your application>-compile script), but you will not be able to debug your applications in Java (i.e., the <your application>-shell script will fail).

Links to the relevant GWT Developer Forum posts: http://groups.google.com/group/Google-Web-Toolkit/browse_thread/thread/a41dce71a100dfcd http://groups.google.com/group/Google-Web-Toolkit/browse_thread/thread/52840d7032a7552e

Comment #1

Posted on Sep 25, 2006 by Massive Rabbit

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Comment #2

Posted on Sep 30, 2006 by Quick Giraffe

If I understand right, you're using the SWT Browser with enhancements. If you cannot make it work on Safari, there are efforts being done to make SWT support Mozilla on all platforms. This bug:

https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=78048

Has a small patch that makes Mozilla work on OSX. In 3.3, this is supposed to be generally supported:

https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=154124

Comment #3

Posted on Oct 7, 2006 by Quick Elephant

Is there a timeframe for an OSX version? I saw some posts about that being a priority back in May.

Thanks!

Comment #4

Posted on Oct 18, 2006 by Swift Hippo

Yes, any time frame for this?

Comment #5

Posted on Oct 18, 2006 by Quick Horse

That question is covered at the very tail end of a recent Java Posse GWT rountable podcast. A firm date is not given, but it sounds like it will be very soon.

http://media.libsyn.com/media/dickwall/JavaPosse088.mp3 http://www.javaposse.com/index.php?post_id=140955

Joshua Smith

Comment #6

Posted on Oct 20, 2006 by Swift Hippo

Feature implemented for the upcoming release.

Comment #7

Posted on Oct 25, 2006 by Quick Rabbit

when can osx people expect the upcoming release?

Comment #8

Posted on Oct 31, 2006 by Swift Panda

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Comment #9

Posted on Apr 28, 2008 by Grumpy Horse

Comment #10

Posted on Feb 9, 2011 by Swift Ox

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Status: Fixed

Labels:
Type-Enhancement Priority-Critical Milestone-1_2-RC