From owner-freebsd-java@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Mar 22 02:33:26 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-java@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 60F2D16A4CF for ; Mon, 22 Mar 2004 02:33:26 -0800 (PST) Received: from iota.root-servers.ch (iota.root-servers.ch [193.41.193.195]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 38E0E43D39 for ; Mon, 22 Mar 2004 02:33:25 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from gabriel_ambuehl@buz.ch) Received: (qmail 29053 invoked from network); 22 Mar 2004 10:33:23 -0000 Received: from 217-162-135-163.dclient.hispeed.ch (HELO ?10.2.2.3?) (217.162.135.163) by 0 with SMTP; 22 Mar 2004 10:33:23 -0000 Date: Mon, 22 Mar 2004 11:36:39 +0100 From: Gabriel Ambuehl Organization: BUZ Internet Services X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Message-ID: <849276008.20040322113639@buz.ch> To: java@freebsd.org, amd64@freebsd.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: JDK on AMD64? X-BeenThere: freebsd-java@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: gabriel_ambuehl@buz.ch List-Id: Porting Java to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 22 Mar 2004 10:33:26 -0000 Hello, I've been playing with a clients AMD64 machines and god they really are screaming fast (but quite silent to boot) and I was wondering if anyone has had some success in building a JDK on them. As far as I can tell, the Linuxulator doesn't run on them so there's little luck building it from scratch. However, considering that AMD64 is binary compatible to IA32, it might be possible to compile the JDK on a regular IA32 machine and use it to bootstrap the AMD64 version but so far, I'm having trouble finding the compat module that would allow such binaries to actually run (they can't find their libs). I gather there is some unstable compat module around, if that's true, where can I get it (I don't care just how instable it is, maybe I can get the JDK to run, maybe not)? Best regards, Gabriel