Google Web Toolkit for Mac didn’t work for me

I saw today on the Google Mac Blog that they released a version of the Google Web Toolkit for Mac. I’ve been having some ideas about some web applications that I think the GWT might be good for, so I thought I would try it out.

I downloaded it, and checked the md5sum (34b9ceef5e13ef218d4524c3f7b55cea) of the download. I thought it was a little weird that it was being downloaded as a gzipped tar archive, so I thought I would read the getting started guide.

I untarred the archive, and I cd’ed into the untarred folder. At this point, I thought I would follow the getting started guide on running the Kitchen Sink example in hosted mode.

I cd’ed into samples/KitchenSink/ and ran the ./KitchenSink-shell script. At this point I got an error message:

Exception in thread "main" java.lang.UnsatisfiedLinkError: Unable to load required native library 'gwt-webkit'
Your GWT installation may be corrupt
at com.google.gwt.dev.shell.mac.LowLevelSaf.init(LowLevelSaf.java:180)
at com.google.gwt.dev.BootStrapPlatform.go(BootStrapPlatform.java:10)
at com.google.gwt.dev.GWTShell.main(GWTShell.java:264)


I did a little bit of Google searching, and I found that someone else had the same problem. He mentioned Issue #300 which I looked at, and it said it was fixed. The problem was something having to do with a case-sensitive filesystem, which I think is odd because I thought all Macs were pretty standard with their case-sensitive filesystems. So I’m not sure if I just have to wait until the next release or if it is still broken or what.

Hopefully it will get fixed soon though because I have a limited amount of free time right now to work on my new project and using GWT on it I think would be sweet.