Re: java, glibc & smallest possible footprint ???

2002-02-03 Thread Michael D. Schleif
Ross Mark wrote: > > If you don't need a 1.2 jvm then try Kaffe as last time I tried it > the footprint was <5M. Depending on how much space you have the full > 1.1.8 jre from Blackdown is a fair bit smaller than the 1.2. I didn't find any glibc20 1.1.8 at blackdown.org -- please, point it out

Re: java, glibc & smallest possible footprint ???

2002-02-03 Thread David Brownell
> > gcj is the gcc java compiler. > > I want to investigate this -- do you have any links? I really need to > know how big that new library is. http://gcc.gnu.org/java ... though it's not yet had work done to optimize it for a particularly small footprint. -

Re: java, glibc & smallest possible footprint ???

2002-02-03 Thread Michael D. Schleif
Edgar Villanueva wrote: > > There are a bunch of ways to do this with alot of constraints. > > More details would be required to answer this correctly. > > One way which may work is compiling the java application into native > code with gcj. > > gcj is the gcc java compiler. > > There are so

Re: java, glibc & smallest possible footprint ???

2002-02-03 Thread Edgar Villanueva
There are a bunch of ways to do this with alot of constraints. More details would be required to answer this correctly. One way which may work is compiling the java application into native code with gcj. gcj is the gcc java compiler. There are some issues with this. gcj requires a library j

java, glibc & smallest possible footprint ???

2002-02-03 Thread Michael D. Schleif
OK, first off, I'm clearly the newbie ;> [1] We design and build several lean & mean Linux-based network objects, including firewalls and routers, all of which are currently running glibc 2.0.7 compiled applications. [2] We have a requirement to run a third party application (JAR) on these syst