Thursday, April 15, 2004

[Lazy Web] anyone got the Eclipse Profiler working on OS X? I spotted this neat looking profiler plugin for eclipse. I'd like to use it on my PowerBook though it uses a native library. It ships with a linux script and windows DLL but I've not had much success getting the dynamic library built for OS X. Its many years since I've had the pleasure to fiddle around with the gazillion compile options available on C++ compilers just to get things to, erm, compile and spit out a shared library. Any g++ rocket scientists managed to achieve this and get the plugin working? I'm hoping once we get this baby compiled it'll work with Apple's JVM, fingers crossed. Update: Yuri came to my rescue - the -bundle is the magic flag to create a dynamic library on OS X. So the following seems to compile the plugin's C++ on OS X... g++ -O0 -DLINUX -bundle -I. -I$JAVA_HOME/include ProfilerDLL.cpp -o libProfilerDLL.dylib Now to try use this with the plugin.... Update#2: After much googling I've stumbled over this Apple FAQ which helps hugely. Final Update: Its looking like the plugin doesn't work with Apple's JVM :(. Thanks to Sam and bit more tweaking, I've got the following script to build the plugin's JNI library on OS X... #!/bin/sh # # Builds the JNI plugin for OS X # g++ -O0 -DLINUX -bundle -framework JavaVM -I. -I$JAVA_HOME/include ProfilerDLL.cpp -o libProfilerDLL.jnilib sudo cp libProfilerDLL.jnilib /System/Library/Frameworks/JavaVM.framework/Libraries # this shouldn't be required but the plugin checks for it for some reason sudo cp ../ProfilerDLL.dll $JAVA_HOME/jre/bin So at least with the above, you can build the JNI library and the profiler plugin starts up and seems to run - but the process you're profiling just terminates immedately (with exist value 10) and no profiling data :(. This is a huge shame as the plugin looks great. 12:07:00 PM    comment []