Date: Fri, 08 Sep 1995 22:29:39 -0700 From: Jon Loeliger <jdl@chromatic.com> To: Jake Hamby <jehamby@lightside.com> Cc: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com>, Stephen Hocking <sysseh@devetir.qld.gov.au>, hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Java - is anyone working on this at all? Message-ID: <199509090529.WAA09201@xenon.chromatic.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 08 Sep 1995 19:27:36 PDT." <Pine.AUX.3.91.950908191816.1025A-100000@covina.lightside.com>
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Jake Hamby scribbled:
> I just downloaded the source code to HotJava, and it's a pretty big
> mess... I can't even get it to compile under SOLARIS using GCC (Sun used
> their commercial SunPro compiler to build it)! To give people an idea of
> some of the surface issues that have to be dealt with before even getting
> into the tricky problems with synchronization, threads, audio support, etc:
I don't know if you are aware of the java porting alias or not, but
I presume you are. It is:
Info: send 'help' to java-porting-request@java.sun.com
Also, here are the addresses of at least two others who at some
point in the recent past mumbled about the Linux/BSDI porting efforts:
John Croix, journeyman@mail.utexas.edu
csw@scndprsn.Eng.Sun.COM
> 1) The Makefiles are designed for Solaris make, and don't work properly with
> GNU make or Berkeley make.
There has been some effort to GNUize the makefiles already. I don't
know if they are done and generally available though. Mail to the
java-porting list will yield the current state of the, er, art there.
> 2) You must have a preexisting Java compiler in order to bootstrap (i.e.
> byte-compile) the Java code. This means hosting part of the development
> under Windows NT/95 or Solaris to do this portion of the compile until
> the FreeBSD native Java compiler is built.
Yep. There is also some debate over the current "offical" opcode list.
Watch for ambiguity or out-of-date-ness there...
Also, there's a 64-bit int trick or two that requires some thought.
jdl
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