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Date:      Mon, 31 Oct 2011 23:53:35 +0100
From:      "Ronald Klop" <ronald-freebsd8@klop.yi.org>
To:        freebsd-java@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Java on ARM processor?
Message-ID:  <op.v38m7lja8527sy@212-182-167-131.ip.telfort.nl>
In-Reply-To: <4EA761D1.6040307@samersoff.net>
References:  <op.v3vl2vpn8527sy@212-182-167-131.ip.telfort.nl> <20111025145744.GA31136@misty.eyesbeyond.com> <4EA761D1.6040307@samersoff.net>

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On Wed, 26 Oct 2011 03:26:41 +0200, Dmitry Samersoff <dms@samersoff.net> =
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wrote:

> On 2011-10-25 18:57, Greg Lewis wrote:
>> As always, the biggest problem is going to be bootstrapping.  Since =20
>> there
>> isn't an existing FreeBSD/arm binary of openjdk7 you'll need to work =20
>> around
>> that.  There are a variety of ways you could tackle that.  The most =20
>> common
>> is to set up an NFS mount with an i386 or amd64 machine and remotely =20
>> execute
>> all of the java bootstrap steps while the C/C++ compilation occurs =20
>> locally.
>
> I guess setup gcc cross-compilation on x86 box is much easier.
>
> -Dmitry
>

Hi,

I am looking into this and I am afraid I am not seeing it right. How do I=
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get a compiler running on amd64, but compiling for ARM? The stock FreeBSD=
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gcc doesn't do this and I don't see a port which would do this except =20
gnatdroid-armv5 which is specifically for android.
Where is a 'regular' armv5-gcc version?

Ronald.



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