Help with swing setup on Mac - using HeadFirst Java

[Mike Slater]

I'm pretty new to Java and very new to using java on a mac. I've been using the HeadFirst java book. All has been going perfectly until the gui chapter on swing.

I tried to compile a simple frame with a button. The terminal spit out several runtime errors dealing with my file setup as follows :

[Michael-Slaters-Computer:~/myjava] michaels% java SimpleGui1
dyld: java Undefined symbols:
/System/Library/Frameworks/JavaVM.framework/Versions/1.5.0/Libraries/libawt.jnilib undefined reference to
 _kCTForegroundColorFromContextAttributeName expected to be defined in ApplicationServices
/System/Library/Frameworks/JavaVM.framework/Versions/1.5.0/Libraries/libawt.jnilib undefined reference to
 _NSAccessibilityTopLevelUIElementAttribute expected to be defined in Cocoa
/System/Library/Frameworks/JavaVM.framework/Versions/1.5.0/Libraries/libawt.jnilib undefined reference to
 _NSAccessibilityInsertionPointLineNumberAttribute expected to be defined in Cocoa
Trace/BPT trap

I'm using java 1.5.0 on OSX 10.3.9(panther)

I'm running 1.5.0 after extracting the versions folder from the tiger update .pkg. Is there something else I need to change for the swing package to work properly?

I appreciate any help I can get. Thanks.

*added to original post* I changed my current version back to 1.4.2 and Gui works just fine. So I know the problem has something to do with my version change

[ September 03, 2007: Message edited by: Mike Slater ]

[ UD: added line breaks to keep formatting intact ]
[ September 03, 2007: Message edited by: Ulf Dittmer ]

[Ulf Dittmer]

Welcome to JavaRanch.

According to this page, Java 5 is really only supported under 10.4 and newer, not on 10.3. It sounds a bit hackish what you describe (extracting files from a .pkg), so that's probably the reason.

[Mike Slater]

Yeah, it's quite a bit hackish. There's probably another set of separate files I need from the update. I just don't want to fool around too much without knowing exactly what I'm doing (or worse, replacing).

[Bear Bibeault]

You are unlikely to get this working without a complete and standard installation. Grabbing portions of an installation not suited to the version of the OS you are using is unlikely to ever work properly.

[Bear Bibeault]

You are unlikely to get this working without a complete and standard installation. Grabbing portions of an installation not suited to the version of the OS you are using is unlikely to ever work properly.