Date: Tue, 12 Sep 2000 18:38:18 -0700 From: "Rick Moore" <rick@geckobot.com> To: <rjs@fdy2.demon.co.uk>, <glewis@trc.adelaide.edu.au> Cc: <freebsd-java@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Native Java on FreeBSD Message-ID: <016e01c01d23$4bf3e5b0$04fea8c0@patches> References: <20000912091337.2E90D37B423@hub.freebsd.org>
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The web page http://sources.redhat.com/java/docs.html provides loose instructions on how to port libgcj. Specifically it mentions threads, signal handling, and file handling as the key porting issues. They make it sound pretty easy, but who knows. Rick ----- Original Message ----- From: "Robert Swindells" <swindellsr@genrad.co.uk> To: <glewis@trc.adelaide.edu.au> Cc: <freebsd-java@FreeBSD.ORG> Sent: Tuesday, September 12, 2000 2:13 AM Subject: Re: Native Java on FreeBSD > > Greg Lewis wrote: > >>On Mon, Sep 11, 2000 at 07:19:43PM -0700, Rick Moore wrote: > >> Yeah, but someone would need to port it to FreeBSD-- as if there weren't > >> enough projects to do... > >> > >> Rick > >> > On Mon, Sep 11, 2000 at 01:00:03AM -0700, Brent Spaulding wrote: > >> > > Is any work being done on a compiler to create > >> > > "pure-BSD" native executables from Java code? > >> > > > >> > > Thank you, > >> > > Brent Spaulding > >> > > >> > Isn't this what the gcc frontend gcj <http://sources.redhat.com/java/>; is > >> > all about? Dunno how well it works though, so you are on your own in that > >> > respect. > > >By porting, I assume you mean libgcj, since the gcj front end just > >compiles as part of gcc (if you want it to). > > >Has anyone tried compiling libgcj under FreeBSD? According to the gcj > >web site, they don't believe getting it to compile would be too > >difficult. > > It failed horribly the last time I tried building libgcj. One of the > Java files caused an internal compiler error. > > This was about a month ago, so it may have improved. > > Robert > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-java" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-java" in the body of the message
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