Current revisions of Eclipse prevent the use of SoyLatte, the OpenJDK port of Java 1.6 for OS X 10.4/10.5. There is an open bug about this, and even better a patch for StandardVMType attached to the bug. I've applied the patch and it does indeed work. There is actually only a single jar used by Eclipse that needs to be built, and most of this can be done within Eclipse itself. The steps for doing this are outlined below.
- Download the Eclipse source. Unzip it.
- From within Eclipse do File | Import... | Existing Projects into Workspace and hit Next. Set your root directory to ${eclipse_src}/plugins/org.eclipse.jdt.launching. Copy the project into the workspace, just to save potential trouble.
- Check out the patch. Copy it to your clipboard.
- To apply the patch go to StandardVMType.java in the Package Explorer, right click, Team | Apply Patch...
- Now to export the plugin, i.e. build the jar needed by Eclipse. Again from within Eclipse: File | Export... | Plug-In Development | Deployable plugs-ins and fragments. Check off the plugin and perhaps change the output directory. Hit finish. You should have the jar with the applied patch in your output directory now.
- Exit Eclipse.
- From your Eclipse home directory (not the source installation, your binary install directory), go to plugins/ and find a file that is named something like org.eclipse.jdt.launching_3.3.1.v20070808_r331.jar. Move this file to a backup directory of your choosing.
- Copy the file generated in step (5) to here.
- Restart Eclipse.
- Go to Eclipse preferences | Java | Installed JREs and try and add SoyLatte as a JRE. If everything worked you should be able to do so without error.
Good luck. Let me know if this works for anyone.
Update: The above works with Eclipse Europa, but not Ganymede. I am currently investigating how to get SoyLatte working with Ganymede.
