From owner-freebsd-java Tue Jul 10 23:18:59 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-java@freebsd.org Received: from mail.earthtribe.net (adsl-64-161-63-10.dsl.snlo01.pacbell.net [64.161.63.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id E533037B406 for ; Tue, 10 Jul 2001 23:18:55 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mdagosta@earthtribe.net) Received: (qmail 60108 invoked from network); 10 Jul 2001 23:18:54 -0700 Received: from unknown (HELO quest.earthtribe.net) (192.168.1.20) by 0 with SMTP; 10 Jul 2001 23:18:54 -0700 Message-Id: <5.1.0.14.0.20010710232019.00b0c058@spot.earthtribe.net> X-Sender: mdagosta@spot.earthtribe.net X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 5.1 Date: Tue, 10 Jul 2001 23:22:13 -0700 To: freebsd-java@freebsd.org From: Mike D'Agosta Subject: Sun's JDK 1.4 and FreeBSD Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="=====================_10429326==_" Sender: owner-freebsd-java@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org --=====================_10429326==_ Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed I've attached a .html file with a very basic overview of installing Sun's JDK1.4 on FreeBSD. Might be good advertising for the FreeBSD-Java home page. Mike --=====================_10429326==_ Content-Type: text/html; charset="us-ascii" Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="FreeBSD-jdk1.4.html"

Installing j2sdk1.4

I just got curious and installed j2sdk1.4 on my FreeBSD 4.3-STABLE. So far I've done very few tests - installed jakarta-tomcat and ran some small programs I had. I haven't tested anything with threading, jini, rmi, gui, etc.

mdagosta@vitruvian:~> java -version
expr: syntax error
java version "1.4.0-beta"
Java(TM) 2 Runtime Environment, Standard Edition (build 1.4.0-beta-b65)
Java HotSpot(TM) Client VM (build 1.4.0-beta-b65, mixed mode)

mdagosta@vitruvian:~> jikes
Jikes Compiler
(C) Copyright IBM Corp. 1997, 2001.

Version 1.14 - 13 May 2001
Mike

For the Impatient

  1. Install linux_base-6.1 - FTP Package
  2. Install javavmwrapper-1.1 - FTP Package
  3. Get Sun's JDK 1.4 (beta) - HTTP
  4. Unpack it to XXX and set/export JAVA_HOME=XXX
  5. Install IBM's Jikes - FTP Package
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