On Jan 17, 2007, at 3:03 PM, Alexei Zakharov wrote:
Hi all, I gratefully like to announce that I was successful in building and running Harmony on newly installed Debian stable Linux system. As far as I remember nobody has tried to build on Debian before (I may be wrong of course). However there were some tricks I'd like to share. 1. I was able to build both classlib and DRLVM without any problems with our "getting started for contributors" page and default Debian package set.
Yay!
2. However, DRLVM completely rejected to run after step 1. Even HelloWorld crashed. The problem was that the kernel I was using wasn't fresh enough - big thanks to Alexei Fedotov for pointing this out. So I've switched from version 2.4.27 to 2.6.8 and this brings DRLVM back to life.
Yikes! Why?
3. After step 2 everything was almost fine. Except for the graphics. Almost all Swing & AWT tests fail because it fails to load org.apache.harmony.awt.wtk.linux.LinuxWindowFactory. I've spent some time investigating this. The correct sequence of actions was su cd /usr/X11R6/lib ln -sf libXmu.so.6 libXmu.so ln -sf libXtst.so.6 libXtst.so ldconfig exit Now everything is fine. I believe that the information from steps (2) and (3) may help others to setup Harmony quickly. Probably it is not a bad idea to put it somewhere on our site.
Agreed. There is a good place on the wiki for this?
Thanks, -- Alexei Zakharov, Intel ESSD
