Hi, On Tue, 2002-10-08 at 11:04, Arnaud Vandyck wrote: > For clarification: > > Mark Wielaard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > The easiest is to use gcj with libgcj. This works perfectly on PPC. > > libgcj is based on GNU Classpath but a lot of merging work is still > > needed. (See http://gcc.gnu.org/java/libgcj-classpath-compare.html) > > Note that libgcj takes a lot of time (and disk space) to compile. > > It is certainly not the nicest platform to do quick write, run, > > debug cycles if you are hacking on the core libraries. > > Compiler
And Runtime! It also contains gij (GNU Interpreter for Java) for interpreting bytecode and programs compiled to native code are completely self-contained since libgcj contains all necessary runtime support. > Anthony Green <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > It's not so bad if you can do your development outside of libgcj. > > For instance, many new packages can be developed outside of libgcj > > and then merge it in when you're happy (like a new javax.* package). > > You can also avoid native compilation and link times by testing with > > gij. > > So maybe the first step would be to contribute even with a non-free > implementation of a jdk as Sascha and Anthony suggest. When > contribution is ok, I'll try to test it with gcj (for compilation) and > kissme (for runtime) as Mark suggest. > > Am I right? Any other suggestions are welcome. When not working on the core classes I agree with Anthony that using gcj as compiler (and runtime) is probably the easiest. (Especially when working on a non-x86 platforms.) And if it works with gcj it will probably work out of the box with any VM based on GNU Classpath. Note that there is also jikes <http://www.jikes.org/> a free bytecode compiler and Kaffe <http://www.kaffe.org/> a free bytecode interpreter (but no jit yet) which includes another class library which can both be used on Powerpc. Code written using jikes/kaffe should also work with GNU Classpath based VMs (and if they don't that is a bug that we like to hear about). Cheers, Mark _______________________________________________ Classpath mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/classpath
