Florian Weimer wrote:
* Jonathan Springer:
We have been working on an OpenJDK MIPS port, but it's difficult to
produce a version that works fully due to the remaining missing pieces
(in b18, libdcpr.so, libjsound.so, and libjsoundalso.so). I know that
work is in progress to create open replacements for these pieces (and
thanks for the work to remove libt2k already), but would it be
possible in the meantime to get binary versions of these libraries,
analogous to the binary plug versions that exist for other platforms?
Couldn't you base your work on the IcedTea effort? It should give you
a fairly complete variant of OpenJDK on any GCJ-supported platform,
provided that you've successfully ported the Hotspot VM.
I wasn't aware that IcedTea had replacements for these closed libraries (listed above),
which are referenced by some elements of the class library. However, I just went to the
wiki to check, and it sounds like you've stubbed out sound (libjsound, libjsoundalsa) and
maybe reimplemented around libdcpr. I guess I should take a closer look -- thanks for the
idea.
One issue for use of IcedTea is that we are on Gentoo, though I see now the FAQ talks
about how to get that to work (build a custom libgcj). It's just a question of what is
least painful.
I'm still interested in getting simple binaries of the originals, since that would be most
expedient.
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