next steps

[David Alayachew]

This is extremely exciting.

Please let us know if there is anything we can do to help out!

On Wed, May 22, 2024 at 10:28 AM Johan Vos <johan.vos at gluonhq.com> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> As explained in a previous mail [1], I have a branch from the (almost)
> head of openjdk/jdk that allows to build the static JDK libs for iOS and
> Android. I can rebase this branch on top of the existing commits of the
> current openjdk/mobile head, but some of those commits are no longer needed.
> Hence, I suggest that we start with a clean version, taken from the
> current openjdk/jdk so that I can create a PR against this clean state. In
> order to do so, I can first create a PR that reverts the current diff
> between mobile and jdk.
>
> Apart from that, I am locally working on making changes in hotspot so that
> it allows to create an application with a launcher that is statically
> linked against libjvm.a, libjli.a and the native libs for the JDK classes.
> I created a simple launcher that I compile and link with the
> slightly modified VM libs (mainly #ifdef STATIC_BUILD). The branch I use
> for that slightly modified libs version is at [2] and it mainly contains
> additional debug info.
>
> The latter is just an experiment, as I am personally unsure yet what VM
> would be optimal for being used in mobile -- especially given Apple's
> restriction on the dynamic generation of code.
>
> - Johan
>
> [1] https://mail.openjdk.org/pipermail/mobile-dev/2024-May/000873.html
> [2] https://github.com/johanvos/jdk/tree/statichotspot
>
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