Hi there,
I got Kaffe from CVS and tried to compile it myself but I cant understand why it needs jikes and whi it needs a Java VM. The configure script barks about these two pre-requisites. Wasn't Kaffe supposed to provide both a Java compiler and a Java VM?
Hi Fernando,
thanks for your bug reports!
I don't recall the configure script checking for a Java vm. Could you
post a snippet of the configure output? I think there was something like
that in the configure script of gjdoc, I may have merged it in without
thinking too hard about it and made a mistake, but I'm not sure. Kaffe shouldn't need an installed VM to build, if the configure script barks, then it's a bug.
Regarding jikes: you need a java compiler to build the class library. Currently only jikes is supported in a user friendly way out of the box, I plan to add user-friendly support in the configure script for externally installed kjc, gcjx, ecj, gcj and javac soon.
I could also find no info on how to use another Java compiler in place of jikes (wanted to use gcj). If Kaffe build really needs a Java compiler and Java VM, couldn't it use gcj / gij and so I could build it using only free software?
gcj used to be pretty broken for compiling any class library other than it's own for a while. I haven't tried it on Kaffe's class library in ages, but I'll give it a go tonight, and try to add a --with-gjc option to the configure script.
cheers, dalibor topic
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