Hi all, Since I usually don't test kaffe snap on arm based machines, but see several ML messages saying, 'kaffe can not be compiled for arm, and so on' or 'kaffe awt does not work for arm, and so on' several times.
So, I spent some time to get some 'portable' environment to test kaffe for arm. Of course, at very begining, I think QEMU based approach should be the way to go (according to http://www.mail-archive.com/search ?l=kaffe%40kaffe.org&q=qemu, Guilhem and several others have experiences to use QEMU for verifying kaffe), but I noticed there is another approach. If you see netbsd site (http://www.netbsd.org), you can find one interesting page titled 'Running NetBSD on emulated hardware' (http://www.netbsd.org/Ports/emulators.html), and in this page the program 'gxemul' is discussed. In the GXemul homepage (http://http://gavare.se/gxemul/), you may be able to find so many different architectures are supported by single emulation software! (please check Installing and running "guest OSes" page in GXemul homepage). Following the instructions provided for 'NetBSD/cats' ports, I can successfully install NetBSD, and then can prepare compilation environment for kaffe (just add jikes, and gnu-make). After that, I can successfully configure kaffe with --with-engine=intrp \ --enable-pure-java-math \ --with-threads=unix-jthreads \ --disable-boehm-gc-configuration \ --with-gc=kaffe-gc \ --disable-sound \ --without-x \ --disable-native-awt \ --disable-gtk-peer \ --disable-gconf-peer \ --disable-plugin and, the configuration process has been completed. Since I don't have enough time to do the compilation itself (and of course invoke regression test) right now, but I hope I can continue this effort for this weekend. Thanks heavily (or "Tack sa mycket") to Mr. Anders Gavere for his cute program ;-) Kiyo P.S. Of course, I have several small ev-boards based on arm cpu, but if I use these as development platforms, it can not be a 'portable' environment, in my definition. I really want to debug kaffe while I am in business trip :-) _______________________________________________ kaffe mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://kaffe.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kaffe
