OpenJDK 6 Skeleton Plan for OSX Universal Binary

[Rob Ross]

See here: 

http://jkoala.org/


This so far represents the best possibility of actually making this happen! :)

And yes, I've donated 50 EUR to the cause, and intend to contribute software development as well.


Rob

On Oct 26, 2010, at 6:48 PM, Lussier, Denis wrote:

> It's my personal goal that it be run well behaved Java client (swing
> and swk) and server apps (tomcat, jboss, etc, etc) perfectly.  In
> short, any 100% pure java app will run.  We must keep in mind that
> older versions of Eclipse for OSX are hardcoded to use the built in
> Apple JVM's and ignore the JAVA_HOME Env variable.  In a phase 2 we
> could get ther IcedTea extensions built on the Web so we get the
> Webstart. Stuff and other goodies.
> 
> On 10/26/10, MiB <digital.discuss at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 
>> 24 okt 2010 kl. 13.56 skrev Lussier, Denis:
>> 
>>> I believe that getting IcedTea to work on an OSX port is a great
>>> thing, but...  I I think this should be an extended goal that's
>>> tackled first for OpenJDK 7 (since it already builds on OSX).
>>> 
>>> I think the milestones toward getting a robust OSX release for
>>> OpenJDK 6 should be:
>>> 
>>> 1.) Get a baseline build of the latest OpenJDK 6 code bundle
>>> (currently b20) to build on OSX 10.5 Intel in 32-bit mode.   There
>>> should be a minimal set of patches applied to the make files and
>>> source code similar to what is currently done for OpenJDK 7 BSD port.
>>> 
>>> 2.) Get the above build working as a universal binary.
>> What are the possible pitfalls of making it build and then run on PPC?
>> 
>>> 
>>> 3.) Make sure the above Universal binary runs really well on 10.4
>>> PPC thru 10.6 Intel.
>> I assume this means "run well in a compatible fashion on 10.4 Intel/
>> PPC, 10,5 intel/PPC as well 10.6 Intel". Perhaps obvious, but I just
>> want to make it that. :-)
>> 
>> The problem I've had with Landon Fullers Open JDK 7 2009 beta-
>> compilation – Thanks Landon! – is I'm not sure how to make it a full
>> citizen. I've reset JAVA_HOME pointing to it and for some apps, like
>> CLI apps, this works fine and others, like Eclipse or specifically
>> Springsource Tool Suite refuse to run on it. Netbeans accepted it as a
>> target VM, but I haven't been able to start up Netbeans with on it.
>> 
>> This leads me to the issue what distributions the Mac openJDK should
>> be compatible with. Is it the openJDK on other platforms or the OS X
>> java implementation style? In 10.6 it's easy to add additional JVM's,
>> but seems less so in 10.5.
>> 
>> 
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