How to cross compile OpenJDK for Arm32?

[Severin Gehwolf]

Hi,

On Mon, 2014-12-08 at 21:46 +1000, David Holmes wrote:
> On 8/12/2014 7:10 PM, ChenLong wrote:
> > Hi
> >
> > Apologize if this is not the right place to ask.
> > I want to try OpenJDK8 on Armv7. Is there a guideline on how to cross compile OpenJDK8 for Armv7? And if not, could someone share some experiences? I went through the README-builds.html and did not find any clues for cross compiling.
> 
> The only OpenJDK build for ARM would be a ZERO build. But I don't know 
> how to do Zero builds - though I'm sure the Zero folk will chime in.

CC'ing zero-dev.

I've done Zero builds before but have never used OpenJDK's cross-compile
feature to build it on ARMv7. There is an Arm32 bit JIT in IcedTea[1],
but I don't know if that can be cross-compiled.

Cheers,
Severin

[1]
http://blog.fuseyism.com/index.php/2014/03/28/icedtea-2-3-14-2-4-6-considered-armful-released/

> David
> 
> > Thanks
> > Chen Long
> >