Hi Archie,
GNU/Classpath problem
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at the moment, when I run:
$jc HelloWorld
I got the following exception:
java.lang.UnsatisfiedLinkError: failed to open native library:
'usr/local/classpath/lib/classpath/libjavanio.so'
The reason is simple: Classpath doesn't know it's running on Cygwin,
therefore it looks for "libjavanio.so" instead of "libjavanio.dll" (which
exists on the filesytem). I'll post a thread on the Classpath list in order
to fix this problem.
Assertion failures on Cygwin
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I compiled the distribution with all assertions enabled and ran:
$jc HelloWorld
The result is that the following assertions fail:
1. vm.c - line 46
2. vm.c - line 176
3. heap.c - line 238
4. thread.c - line 1023
Of course, to get to assertions 2 I had to comment assertion 1 and so on.
Segmentation fault problem on Cygwin
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While debugging JCHEVM with DDD I noticed that the pthread library issues
a segmentation fault signal. In order to proceed, I instructed DDD to
ignore the signal.
To fix the problem, I'll have to compile the pthread library in debug
mode and sneak in
the source code.
Comment
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Even if I fix all of these problems, JCHEVM will always need Cygwin to
run on top
of Windows. That is acceptable for now, but someday, if we want JCHEVM to
became a fully fladged VM we'll have to make a native port to Windows.
Enrico
