Porting Hotspot to other platforms / OS'es

[Michael Neuweiler]

Hi,

I wanted to start porting OpenJDK to Syllable on Intel32 but got stuck 
with the chicken and egg problem of hotspot: "you need a running JDK to 
build a new one".

What are your recommendations to start a port? Is cross-compiling the 
only solution or are there other ways?
I think I saw once that an XSLT is started with an already installed 
JRE/JDK during the build process on my Linux machine. Is this the only 
reason why a JRE has to be installed?

Any help would be greatly appreciated!

Regards,
 Michael Neuweiler

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