Can the Blackberry JDE run on linux OS????

[Lszz]

Hi.. i would like to know whether blackberry jde 3.7 could run in linux os?

[bfrye]

Possibly under an emulator, but not natively.

[berryapps]

There's no way it'll run in linux without using VMware (or clone) that boots Windows 2000/XP

[bfrye]

No one ever tried it using wine?

[dinouye]

[iluxa]

I've tried to install it under wine, but installer itself doesn't work. I don't have any winblows boxes arount to try and see if installed version will run. One thing to try is to install it on windows, and see if
at least compilers and packagers can be run natively on Linux (are they written in Java?)

[iluxa]

Well, I tried wine from CVS yesterday, in win98 mode, installed native M$ Windows Installer 2.0 and was able to install blackberry JDE like this:

WINEDLLOVERRIDES="msi,msimsg32,msisys,ole32,oleaut 32,rpcrt4=n" wine ./JDE_4.0.exe

Once installed, I was able to use native Linux blackdown JDK to run main JDE program
(take a look at "jde.bat" in bin directory to get an idea on how to run it).
However, in order to actually compile something you'd need to be able to run "rapc" compiler.
And that is a windows executable. Well, so it seems from the first glance at least.

In reality of course it is just a wrapper around rarpc.jar (found in bin/ and/or MDS/classpath/).
Main class is net.rim.tools.Compiler
so one can start compiler like this:

java -jar $RIM/MDS/classpath/rapc.jar

Problem is that it takes few options, which are obviously not documented anywhere, that
tell it where blackberry runtime is, and which I didn't figure out yet.

Once that is figured out, all we'll need to, will be replacing rapc.exe with rapc.sh
(either replace the file, or edit the resource file that tells JDE where compiler is)

Oh, also rapc is looking for preverify program, which you can get from Sun J2ME SDK.

so, whole invocation will look something like this:
PATH=$PATH:$HOME/WTK2.2/bin java -classpath $RIM/MDS/classpath/* -jar \
$RIM/MDS/classpath/rapc.jar *.java

(again - this won't work yet - it will complain that we don't import blackberry runtime, and I still don't know how to deal with it)

[iluxa]

So, there is absolutely nothing special about running the cod compiler.
I have jmIrc running on my BB now.

here is the sequence of actions:
1. Compile normal midp-2.0 midlet with J2ME SDK from Sun
2. set up $WTK_HOME to point to your J2ME install, $RIM to point to
your JDE/MDS/classpath, and $APPNAME to your app name
4. cd to $WTK_HOME/apps/$APPNAME
3. run
PATH=$WTK_HOME/bin:$PATH \
java -jar $RIM/rapc.jar import=$RIM/net_rim_api.jar \
codename=$APPNAME -midlet jad=bin/$APPNAME.jad bin/$APPNAME.jar

Your .cod file will end up in current dir. bin/$APPNAME.jad will be modified to contain all
BB-specific info.

That's it folks!

P.S. Of course - running emulator and all other stuff will require more work,
but I personally don't care enough for now.

[DoomBringer]

Originally Posted by iluxa

I've tried to install it under wine, but installer itself doesn't work. I don't have any winblows boxes arount to try and see if installed version will run. One thing to try is to install it on windows, and see if
at least compilers and packagers can be run natively on Linux (are they written in Java?)

HAHA "winblows" YOU MAKE FUNNY!
seriously, wtf. THAT JOKE SUCKS! (as in, its so old!)