On Fri, 2002-10-11 at 14:08, Jose M. Gomez wrote: > Hi everyone, > > Before launching my questions I'd like to thank and congratulate everyone > involved in Kaffe. Great work!
Thanks! > Now, the inevitable questions. I've just started working on making a port of > Kaffe to Minix. Yes, I'm afraid it is Minix. It is for my last year's project > in the university and is a first approximation for a port to DSP processors. > Anyway, moving the source tree to Minix and running configure to start seeing > what would it scream for, there was a message saying that kaffe cannot build > without gcc. Looking in the mailing list archives I've found some references > to compiling Kaffe in VC and Borland C, but I don't know to which extent that > works and they were from the 98 or 99. So, I'd like to know why/what is > specific to gcc or is likely to give severe problems if tried to compile with > an ANSI C compiler, like the one Minix has and not only because of Minix, but > because the C compiler in the TI development environment is not gcc either. > Positive references of compiling Kaffe without gcc, specially on embedded > systems, are more than welcomed for raising my morale and giving me some > peace of mind :). In the past, people have compiled it using MS Visual C++, so I think the gcc dependencies are somewhat minimal. I personally would prefer to keep it that way. > By the way, a suggestion after browsing all the mailing list archives. > Unfortunately I don't have a clue about this, but would it be possible to get > some kind of searching mechanism working? Google seems to work pretty well. If somebody knows something that integrates nicely with mailman/pipermail, I'll gladly install it. > Thanks in advance for your help. > No problem! Cheers, - Jim _______________________________________________ kaffe mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://kaffe.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kaffe
