>do we have any documentation about "porting to other system"? I think >would be immensely helpful.
AFAIK, the only OS-specific info we have are: - http://harmony.apache.org/roadmap.html Porting Matrix - wiki pages "Debugging DRLVM with ...* for linux and windows - hints on win/lin specifics here and there. I agree that having os info could be great - at least, some notes on what to do to run on a platform... Cheers, Nadya >-----Original Message----- >From: Stefano Mazzocchi [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >Sent: Friday, December 01, 2006 5:49 PM >To: [email protected] >Subject: Harmony on Macosx [was Re: [jira] Created: (HARMONY-2374) >[classlib][awt] Missing java2d code for OpenGL pipeline.] > >Alexey Petrenko wrote: >> 2006/11/30, Stefano Mazzocchi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >>> Oleg Khaschansky wrote: >>> >> Now, if only I knew how to port all this stuff over to Macosx :,-( >>> > >>> > Porting opengl 2d rendering shouldn't be complicated at all. Ideally, >>> > only system-dependent part of the code (which manages opengl context) >>> > should be re-implemented using AGL library. There's pbuffer support in >>> > AGL, so no problems with blitters (they do use pbuffers already). >>> > >>> > But it is not a simple task to port the rest of awt. 2d rendering is >>> > just a part of it. >>> No, I'm talking about porting the entire Harmony codebase not just >>> this ;-) >> Didn't you try to run Harmony on OS X with X server? > >So, yesterday I got my first Intel-powered mac (which I'm using to type >now.... faaaaaaaaaaaaast), which means I believe (but then again, I >might be wrong, it has been years since I wrote any x86 assembly code >and I have no clue what the core 2 duo instruction set it) might reduce >the barrier to porting harmony. > >So, no, I have not tried it because running harmony on macosx/powerpc >seemed like too big of a stretch for me to even consider. > >> It could help to use Linux codebase I think... > >well, certainly I wouldn't have started with the windows one ;-) > >> In fact I'm not a Mac OS X guru :( > >Right and years ago I would have thought that Intel and Macosx had >enough impedance mismatch to basically have me to look somewhere else >for help... but things have changed and I wonder if you guys can find us >some macosx expert that might be able to help us with the transition. > >btw, macosx shouldn't be that different from freebsd and I know there >are a lot of freebsd people around the ASF... (and, well, one of the >original darwin developers is an apache member.. and most apache members >use macosx as their OS... question is: how do we get the migration >started? and how do we convince people it's not that hard? > >do we have any documentation about "porting to other system"? I think >would be immensely helpful. > >Thoughts? ideas? suggestions? > >I'll try to build harmony on macosx/core2duo today and see how far along >I can go before my C/C++/UNIX-linking ignorance creeps in. > >BTW, what instruction set is the core2duo anyway? > >-- >Stefano.
