From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Apr 16 11:43:09 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id LAA01751 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 16 Apr 1997 11:43:09 -0700 (PDT) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id LAA01711 for ; Wed, 16 Apr 1997 11:43:02 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.5/8.6.12) with SMTP id LAA08547; Wed, 16 Apr 1997 11:42:31 -0700 (PDT) Date: Wed, 16 Apr 1997 11:42:30 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White X-Sender: dwhite@localhost Reply-To: Doug White To: Asit Chakraborty cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Java availability on freeBSD In-Reply-To: <199704151831.LAA29027@mailsun3-fddi.us.oracle.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On 15 Apr 1997, Asit Chakraborty wrote: > Has Java been ported to freeBSD? If yes, what version and how can I have > access it. > > I am interested in Java 1.0.2 release. How much is the effort in porting > Java on freeBSD platform? What about porting Java green thread? The 1.02 JDK is available for FreeBSD. I have instructions on fetching & installing it, but that's all I know. That's about all I know about Java, too. :) Installing JDK 1.02 1. Fetch ftp://freefall.freebsd.org/pub/incoming/jdk102.11-26.tar.gz 2. Extract in location of your choice. 3. Install the pdksh package, if ksh isn't already installed. 4. Add /path/to/jdk/bin to your PATH 4. Add the following environment variables: CLASSPATH /path/to/jdk/classes.zip:. LD_LIBRARY_PATH /path/to/jdk/lib/i386 Rehash and have fun programming... Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major