Porting OpenJDK to ARMEL

Andrew Haley aph at redhat.com
Wed Apr 23 05:55:43 PDT 2008


Christian Thalinger wrote:
> On Wed, 2008-04-23 at 13:41 +0100, Andrew Haley wrote:
>> 1.  OpenJDK is not set up to cross-compile. 
>>     It builds its tools natively.  Fixing this would be nice, but a
>>     huge task.
> 
> Well, it kind of works.  I cross-compiled IcedTea for ARM[1], although
> it did not build the whole thing as I'm missing some libraries and
> headers.
> 
> But yes, there are problems.

Sure, but you didn't build it, at least not according to that blog
entry -- you just took a j2re-image from an x86_64 build and cross-compiled
CACAO.  So what part of OpenJDK itself was cross-compiled?

Andrew.



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