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This so far represents the best possibility of actually making this happen! :) And yes, I've donated 50 EUR to the cause, and intend to contribute software development as well. Rob On Oct 26, 2010, at 6:48 PM, Lussier, Denis wrote: > It's my personal goal that it be run well behaved Java client (swing > and swk) and server apps (tomcat, jboss, etc, etc) perfectly. In > short, any 100% pure java app will run. We must keep in mind that > older versions of Eclipse for OSX are hardcoded to use the built in > Apple JVM's and ignore the JAVA_HOME Env variable. In a phase 2 we > could get ther IcedTea extensions built on the Web so we get the > Webstart. Stuff and other goodies. > > On 10/26/10, MiB <digital.disc...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> 24 okt 2010 kl. 13.56 skrev Lussier, Denis: >> >>> I believe that getting IcedTea to work on an OSX port is a great >>> thing, but... I I think this should be an extended goal that's >>> tackled first for OpenJDK 7 (since it already builds on OSX). >>> >>> I think the milestones toward getting a robust OSX release for >>> OpenJDK 6 should be: >>> >>> 1.) Get a baseline build of the latest OpenJDK 6 code bundle >>> (currently b20) to build on OSX 10.5 Intel in 32-bit mode. There >>> should be a minimal set of patches applied to the make files and >>> source code similar to what is currently done for OpenJDK 7 BSD port. >>> >>> 2.) Get the above build working as a universal binary. >> What are the possible pitfalls of making it build and then run on PPC? >> >>> >>> 3.) Make sure the above Universal binary runs really well on 10.4 >>> PPC thru 10.6 Intel. >> I assume this means "run well in a compatible fashion on 10.4 Intel/ >> PPC, 10,5 intel/PPC as well 10.6 Intel". Perhaps obvious, but I just >> want to make it that. :-) >> >> The problem I've had with Landon Fullers Open JDK 7 2009 beta- >> compilation – Thanks Landon! – is I'm not sure how to make it a full >> citizen. I've reset JAVA_HOME pointing to it and for some apps, like >> CLI apps, this works fine and others, like Eclipse or specifically >> Springsource Tool Suite refuse to run on it. Netbeans accepted it as a >> target VM, but I haven't been able to start up Netbeans with on it. >> >> This leads me to the issue what distributions the Mac openJDK should >> be compatible with. Is it the openJDK on other platforms or the OS X >> java implementation style? In 10.6 it's easy to add additional JVM's, >> but seems less so in 10.5. >> >> >> /MB >> >> >> >> >
