Building OpenJDK libraries using IcedTea Project for JamVM

[Andrew Hughes]

----- Original Message -----
> On Mon, Dec 8, 2014 at 11:24 AM, Roman Davidenko <rid50 at hotmail.com> wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > having in mind the sentence: "Note that alternate virtual machines (e.g.
> > CACAO, JamVM) will be broken by this release, until such a time as they
> > introduce support for JVM_FindClassFromCaller, a new virtual machine
> > interface function added by S8015256"
> >
> > is it possible to build OpenJDK libraries for JamVM using a current version
> > of JamVM and one of the IcedTea projects (IcedTea 1.13, IcedTea 2.5)?
> >
> > I downloaded IcedTea 2.5, ran ./configute, make .... and got
> > ".../native/java/lang/Class.c:138: undefined reference to
> > `JVM_FindClassFromCaller'..."
> >
> > is any earlier IcedTea projects that are free of the above issue?
> >
> > Regards
> > Roman
> 
> FWIW, you should be able to create a snapshot zip from
> http://sourceforge.net/p/jamvm/code/, which contains an implementation
> of the missing function, and use IcedTea's --with-jamvm-src-zip
> switch.
> 

This is the first I've heard that JamVM was fixed. In that case, I'll dig
out the fix and get it added to IcedTea itself for 2.5.4.

What's the status with CACAO? I know we had a patch from Xerxes, but I
still wasn't able to bootstrap with this applied.

Thanks,
-- 
Andrew :)

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