From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Jan 15 21:44:57 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from camelot.bitart.com (camelot.BITart.com [206.103.221.33]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 69DB614CBE for ; Sat, 15 Jan 2000 21:44:53 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from gerti@bitart.com) Received: (qmail 644 invoked by uid 101); 16 Jan 2000 05:44:58 -0000 Message-ID: <20000116054458.643.qmail@camelot.bitart.com> Content-Type: text/plain MIME-Version: 1.0 (NeXT Mail 4.2mach v148) In-Reply-To: X-Nextstep-Mailer: Mail 4.2mach (Enhance 2.2p1) Received: by NeXT.Mailer (1.148) From: Gerd Knops Date: Sat, 15 Jan 2000 23:44:58 -0600 To: Ryan Thompson Subject: Re: Java (JDK) for FreeBSD ? Cc: Bob Martin , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Reply-To: gerti@BITart.com References: Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Ryan Thompson wrote: > On Mon, 10 Jan 2000, Bob Martin wrote: > > > There is a port for JDK1.1.8. in /usr/ports/java > > After a volly of e-mails, Sun may release a JDK1.2 for BSD, but their > > current responce is to use Linux emulation, and use the Linux version. > > Has anyone had good/bad/indifferent experiences with this? I've ran some > foreign compilers/development environments under Linux emulation in the > past with only one or two snags. How does JDK 1.2 fare? > I used the instructions referenced at www.freebsd.org/java. The startup script did not work for me, I needed to modify it slightly. After that a couple fairly complex apps I tried (Dnd, Sockets etc) worked without a problem. The fonts look hideous though. Gerd To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message