Building openjdk for ARM Linux.

[David Herron]

Gary Benson has been making some interesting postings along these lines.
http://gbenson.livejournal.com/

- David Herron



Pieter Libin wrote:
> I thought there also was a c++ interpreter available,
> maybe it's a good idea to start with this instead of writing all the
> ARM assembly.
>
> Pieter
>
> On Jan 5, 2008 11:53 AM, Andrew Haley <aph at redhat.com> wrote:
>   
>> Tony Lee writes:
>>  > Hello,
>>  >
>>  > I am new to jdk but very comfortable with compiling opensource packages.
>>  >
>>  > I try to build jdk7 on ARM Linux platform with Fedora Core 6.
>>  >
>>  > The build failed with the following message:
>>  >
>>  >
>>  > >From the msg, it looks like I need to install older version of jdk before I
>>  > compile for jdk7, is this correct?
>>  >
>>  > Has anyone succeed in compile the openjdk 7 for ARM linux platform?
>>
>> A great deal of OpenJDK is written in assembly language.  Unless
>> you've written an ARM version of all this it isn't going to work.
>>
>> Andrew.
>>
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