On Monday, November 15th, 2021 at 10:22 PM, Magnus Ihse Bursie <[email protected]> wrote:
>On 2021-11-15 15:06, gnufan42 wrote: >>David Holmes wrote: >>>I'd say it is technically impossible to port OpenJDK to DOS as you do >>>not have any of the necessary operating system support for threads, >>> synchronization, virtual memory, .... >>>Well, these difficulties are all overcame by the DJGPP project. They use >>>DPMI to let the code runs in 32-bit protected mode, they implemented a lot >>>of POSIX functions, including pthread. Otherwise I won't be trying. >Oh, that's interesting, I did not know about that. >I assume you're doing this just for the sake of it, and not really to >use it for anything seriously? If so, it can certainly be a fun >challenge. :-) Do you have a github repo? I might be able to give you a >hand here and there. Not really as an Oracle engineer, but on my spare >time just since it sounds like a cool project. :-) >You need to have reasonably high expectations, however. The entire >java.desktop package is likely to be out of the question, for instance. >Also, what kind of memory space are we talking about here? You might be >hard pressed to run anything else but HelloWorld using zero... >/Magnus >>Thanks, >>Gnufan Hi Magnus, I decided to port JavaME instead finally. Also, I got the source code of it from you. Should I upload that to github directly? Thanks, Gnufan
