trying to build Sun Java 1.6 for MIPS ... problems

Zenon Fortuna zenon at mips.com
Thu May 7 08:29:58 PDT 2009


I am trying to build the Java 1.6 "jre" for MIPS/Linux, but have 
problems even with generation of the IcedTea.
First of all, is it needed to generate the IcedTea? Or there are other 
ways to generate Java "jre" for MIPS?

I have installed a Debian system version 5.0.1 and run it under QEMU/mipsel.
Tried to follow the IcedTea building instructions from 
http://iced-tea.org/wiki/DebianBuildingInstructions
but there is an endless sequence of various missing packages and features.
Currently my "./configure --with-ecj" for the IcedTea complains about 
missing
   No package 'mozilla-js' found
   No package 'mozilla-plugin' found
   No package 'libxul-unstable' found
But let's assume I will solve this problem as well.

The general question: Am I following the right path at all?
Maybe there is a ready-to-be-used Java 1.6 for MIPS available already 
and I am just wasting time trying to build it?
Any hints and/or information will be highly appreciated.

         -zenon



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