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Subject: Re: Java on ARM processor?
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On 2011-10-25 18:57, Greg Lewis wrote:
> As always, the biggest problem is going to be bootstrapping.  Since there
> isn't an existing FreeBSD/arm binary of openjdk7 you'll need to work around
> that.  There are a variety of ways you could tackle that.  The most common
> is to set up an NFS mount with an i386 or amd64 machine and remotely execute
> all of the java bootstrap steps while the C/C++ compilation occurs locally.

I guess setup gcc cross-compilation on x86 box is much easier.

-Dmitry

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