From landonf at bikemonkey.org Fri Feb 1 11:25:10 2008 From: landonf at bikemonkey.org (Landon Fuller) Date: Fri, 1 Feb 2008 11:25:10 -0800 Subject: Bootstrapping a (totally) unsupported architecture References: <20080201.152054.104033544.he@uninett.no> Message-ID: <861BBE78-F32F-4BE6-B4E3-B2AC1B597B5F@bikemonkey.org> I thought I'd forward this along this message from a conversation regarding porting Java to FreeBSD/Sparc -- Havard's scripts could be useful to anyone else working on a port. Begin forwarded message: > From: Havard Eidnes > Date: February 1, 2008 06:20:54 PST > To: landonf at bikemonkey.org > Cc: ltning at anduin.net, freebsd-java at freebsd.org > Subject: Re: Sparc64 > >> What's the status of svr4 emulation on sparc64? I forgot a critical >> piece; One needs a bootstrap JVM, and bootstrapping off of Sun's VM >> would make things easier. > > One can use a bootstrap JVM from another host (and architecture) and > some scripts which use ssh to the bootstrap host and sharing files via > NFS -- that's how I bootstrapped the NetBSD/amd64 version using the > NetBSD/i386 version. I've attached my notes and the scripts I used to > do this. (Admittedly, I've since tweaked the scripts to use > environment variables, so they've not been tested in their present > form...) > > Best regards, > > - H?vard > My notes for using a JVM on NetBSD/i386 to bootstrap JVM on > NetBSD/amd64: > > > I used a set of script wrappers which ssh to another machine (in my > case running NetBSD/i386, with its native java installed) which has > the same directory tree available via NFS as on the target (amd64) > machine, using the exact same paths. Substitute scripts were made for > java, javac, javah, and jar, and the ALT_BOOTDIR was pointed to the > directory tree containing those scripts. Some peculiarities were > discovered: > > o java needs to be able to read from stdin. This means you > can't use "ssh -n", which again means that the build job has > to run in the foreground with access to the tty (yuk...). > > o javah gets at least once passed a class name with a $ in it. > This causes issues because we get a double shell > interpretation which leads to variable expansion; once on the > local machine, once on the remote. To work around that > problem I borrowed the "shquote" shell function from pkgsrc > and tweaked the argument list using it (it's included). > > o the jar script sleeps 10 seconds because otherwise it would > trip over "stale NFS file handle" problems when some files > were copied in place (replaced) on the NFS server just prior > to using "jar". > > Attached below is the set of scripts which I placed in /usr/pkg/java/ > as boot-java/, packaged up as "boot-java.tar.gz". Set JAVA_BOOTHOST > (your boot host) and JAVA_BOOTDIR (top of java directory tree on > JAVA_BOOTHOST) in the environment to suit your config. I also include > the "build-java" shell script I used (to be executed from the top of > the Java source tree).?#!/usr/bin/env bash > > set -x > > export MAKE_VERBOSE=t > > unset LANG > unset JAVA_HOME > unset CLASSPATH > unset LD_LIBRARY_PATH > export ALT_MOTIF_DIR=/usr/pkg > # export ALT_NSPR_PATH=/usr/pkg > export ALT_NSPR_HEADERS_PATH=/usr/pkg/include/firefox/nspr > export ALT_MOZILLA_HEADERS_PATH=/usr/pkg/include/firefox > export SKIP_COMPARE_IMAGES=YES > export DONT_ENABLE_IPV6=YES > export ALT_BOOTDIR=/usr/pkg/java/boot-java > # export ALT_BOOTDIR=/usr/pkg/java/jdk-1.5.0 > # export ALT_BOOTDIR=/usr/pkg/java/sun-1.5 > > cd control/make/ > gmake -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/porters-dev/attachments/20080201/f39b3788/attachment.html -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <1D67C65F-0B9C-4E7E-8DCD-2F229DD5BE99@bikemonkey.org> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Jan 24, 2008, at 6:19 AM, Leandro Guimar?es Faria Corcete DUTRA wrote: > Forgive me if this is a stupid person, I already Googled around and > searched this mailing list and the build one. > > I have an user wanting to run her application on a Sun Ultra 25 > with SV > ? only under GNU/Linux (Debian), not Solaris. Problem is, her > application was coded on Java 1.6 and OpenGL; the latest reference I > found to Java on GNU/Linux SPARC was Blackdown 1.4.1, and even so I > didn?t find a working mirror. > > Is there any running code, even if ? quality? I have already check > the > build documentation, it does mention GNU/Linux x86 and AMD64 and > Solaris > SPARC, x86 and AMD64, but no GNU/Linux SPARC. Alternatively, is the > porting effort trivial enough so a medium-skilled C or C++ programmer > could do it in a few days? If so, is there a porting guide? > > Please answer including me, as I am not subscribed to the list. Howdy, I implemented an initial port of Java 6 to FreeBSD/Sparc over the weekend, and wrote up my process here: http://landonf.bikemonkey.org/code/java/Porting_To_FreeBSD_Sparc.20080204.html I'm also happy to answer any questions, and hopefully this can be of some assistance -- I expect Linux/Sparc to be similar in scope. With any luck we'll get permission to merge the BSD code into OpenJDK. Unfortunately, the code is JRL licensed, and can't be directly incorporated into any OpenJDK work. Cheers, Landon -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.7 (Darwin) iD8DBQFHprFtlplZCE/15mMRAnhsAJ9n6jj1gjr05TK6EJo+XmyiC5eEIACbBqsj b4QX/z06A1RGe4OYenZak6s= =K7kM -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- From mvfranz at gmail.com Mon Feb 11 16:08:54 2008 From: mvfranz at gmail.com (Michael Franz) Date: Mon, 11 Feb 2008 19:08:54 -0500 Subject: IcedTea/OpenJDK on OS X Message-ID: Hi, I have spent the last few weeks trying to get icedtea working (compiling) on OS X. I was directed toward this list. How many people are working on ports of the OpenJDK? Has anyone been able to get OpenJDK to compile and run on OS X? Michael -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/porters-dev/attachments/20080211/7c1a9f2d/attachment.html From glewis at eyesbeyond.com Mon Feb 11 18:56:04 2008 From: glewis at eyesbeyond.com (Greg Lewis) Date: Mon, 11 Feb 2008 18:56:04 -0800 Subject: IcedTea/OpenJDK on OS X In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <20080212025604.GA64909@misty.eyesbeyond.com> On Mon, Feb 11, 2008 at 07:08:54PM -0500, Michael Franz wrote: > I have spent the last few weeks trying to get icedtea working (compiling) on > OS X. I was directed toward this list. How many people are working on > ports of the OpenJDK? Has anyone been able to get OpenJDK to compile and > run on OS X? Not OpenJDK specifically, but Landon Fuller has completed a port for JDK 6 which may be useful. See http://landonf.bikemonkey.org/static/soylatte/ for details. -- Greg Lewis Email : glewis at eyesbeyond.com Eyes Beyond Web : http://www.eyesbeyond.com Information Technology FreeBSD : glewis at FreeBSD.org From mvfranz at gmail.com Mon Feb 11 19:13:39 2008 From: mvfranz at gmail.com (Michael Franz) Date: Mon, 11 Feb 2008 22:13:39 -0500 Subject: IcedTea/OpenJDK on OS X In-Reply-To: <20080212025604.GA64909@misty.eyesbeyond.com> References: <20080212025604.GA64909@misty.eyesbeyond.com> Message-ID: Greg, > > > Not OpenJDK specifically, but Landon Fuller has completed a port for > JDK 6 which may be useful. See > > http://landonf.bikemonkey.org/static/soylatte/ > > for details. I have seen this recently, but it requires the Java Research License. Michael -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/porters-dev/attachments/20080211/fc3afad7/attachment.html From glewis at eyesbeyond.com Mon Feb 11 20:24:49 2008 From: glewis at eyesbeyond.com (Greg Lewis) Date: Mon, 11 Feb 2008 20:24:49 -0800 Subject: IcedTea/OpenJDK on OS X In-Reply-To: References: <20080212025604.GA64909@misty.eyesbeyond.com> Message-ID: <20080212042449.GA65238@misty.eyesbeyond.com> G'day Michael, On Mon, Feb 11, 2008 at 10:13:39PM -0500, Michael Franz wrote: > > Not OpenJDK specifically, but Landon Fuller has completed a port for > > JDK 6 which may be useful. See > > > > http://landonf.bikemonkey.org/static/soylatte/ > > > > for details. > > I have seen this recently, but it requires the Java Research License. > > Michael Sort of. We've so far secured agreements from all the individual contributors for the HotSpot portion of the code base that they are willing to release their changes under the GPL (since our intention is to move to OpenJDK with the BSD port). That would include Landon's changes in that area. We've also got most of the other parts of the code base covered, although there are many small changes that were done a long time ago under the SCSL which we haven't go tthe manpower to track down the individual contributors for. We're hopeful that Sun will agree to relicense those changes under the GPL since they have the right to do so (IANAL, thats just my reading of the SCSL). So, given the imminent release of OpenJDK 6, I'd suggest that all of the changes you are interested in for MacOS X will soon be available under both the JRL and the GPL. -- Greg Lewis Email : glewis at eyesbeyond.com Eyes Beyond Web : http://www.eyesbeyond.com Information Technology FreeBSD : glewis at FreeBSD.org From Carla.Schroer at Sun.COM Thu Feb 14 11:37:34 2008 From: Carla.Schroer at Sun.COM (Carla.Schroer at Sun.COM) Date: Thu, 14 Feb 2008 11:37:34 -0800 Subject: BSD port Message-ID: <47B4987E.5080808@Sun.COM> Bringing the BSD port into the OpenJDK Community under the GPL license is something that Sun would very much like to see happen. We believe that the work that's so far been done on the BSD port is based on code obtained under the Sun Community Source License (SCSL). We need to understand if any of the work was done on code obtained under a different license, such as the Java Research License (JRL). The SCSL license does provide for code modifications to be given back to Sun with sufficient rights and does not require a Sun Contributor Agreement (SCA) in order to do so. So we do need to make sure that we are getting the code back under SCSL. In order to minimize the engineering effort for Sun, we need to work out a way for you to provide diffs to us that correspond to the latest OpenJDK code rather than the SCSL'd code with which you started, since the OpenJDK code has already been cleared for distribution under the GPL. We would like to work with you on the best way to do this so that the code can be published in an OpenJDK project as soon as possible. It would also help us if someone that worked on this port could provide the name of the specific entity (or individuals) that signed the SCSL agreement where this work took place, as well as any other licenses the work was done under. Thanks for your patience in waiting for this answer. With various travels, the holidays, and other items on our legal list, this took longer than we'd all hoped. We believe we now have a path to move forward and make this happen. Carla From glewis at eyesbeyond.com Fri Feb 15 00:03:53 2008 From: glewis at eyesbeyond.com (Greg Lewis) Date: Fri, 15 Feb 2008 00:03:53 -0800 Subject: BSD port In-Reply-To: <47B4987E.5080808@Sun.COM> References: <47B4987E.5080808@Sun.COM> Message-ID: <20080215080353.GA90173@misty.eyesbeyond.com> G'day Carla, On Thu, Feb 14, 2008 at 11:37:34AM -0800, Carla.Schroer at Sun.COM wrote: > Bringing the BSD port into the OpenJDK Community under the GPL license is > something that Sun would very much like to see happen. The BSD Java community would also very much like to see this happen, so it seems like we're in complete agreement so far :). > We believe that the work that's so far been done on the BSD port is based > on code obtained under the Sun Community Source License (SCSL). We need to > understand if any of the work was done on code obtained under a different > license, such as the Java Research License (JRL). The SCSL license does > provide for code modifications to be given back to Sun with sufficient > rights and does not require a Sun Contributor Agreement (SCA) in order to > do so. So we do need to make sure that we are getting the code back under > SCSL. Work on the part was done under the SCSL for the 1.2, 1.3, 1.4 and 1.5 (initially) releases. I mention the previous versions since many changes would be forward ported from one version to the next. Once the JRL update releases commenced we started doing work based on them though, so those changes would be under the JRL. However, everyone who did work under the JRL has agreed to release there changes under the GPL as well. I need to check with the FreeBSD Foundation though on work done for them under contract, but I believe they would be happy for those changes to be released under the GPL too. > In order to minimize the engineering effort for Sun, we need to work out a > way for you to provide diffs to us that correspond to the latest OpenJDK > code rather than the SCSL'd code with which you started, since the OpenJDK > code has already been cleared for distribution under the GPL. We would > like to work with you on the best way to do this so that the code can be > published in an OpenJDK project as soon as possible. We can do that. I see OpenJDK 6 has been released very recently, so we haven't ported to that yet. For OpenJDK 7 we already have a port based on an earlier build and that is being updated to the current build. If OpenJDK 6 is part of this discussion (it might just be OpenJDK 7 you're talking about :) then, assuming its source base is similar to the JRL source base, we should be able to port to it quickly given that we have a working port based on the JRL source. > It would also help us if someone that worked on this port could provide the > name of the specific entity (or individuals) that signed the SCSL agreement > where this work took place, as well as any other licenses the work was done > under. I can get together a list of names of the people who have contributed. However, the SCSL was never "signed" as such. One agreed to the license by clicking on a button with something like "I Accept" on it when downloading the SCSL based source releases. So while I can provide a list of names, I can't provide any paperwork. > Thanks for your patience in waiting for this answer. With various travels, > the holidays, and other items on our legal list, this took longer than we'd > all hoped. We believe we now have a path to move forward and make this > happen. No worries about the wait, just happy to have the ball rolling :). -- Greg Lewis Email : glewis at eyesbeyond.com Eyes Beyond Web : http://www.eyesbeyond.com Information Technology FreeBSD : glewis at FreeBSD.org From dalibor.topic at googlemail.com Fri Feb 15 12:50:41 2008 From: dalibor.topic at googlemail.com (Dalibor Topic) Date: Fri, 15 Feb 2008 21:50:41 +0100 Subject: BSD port In-Reply-To: <20080215080353.GA90173@misty.eyesbeyond.com> References: <47B4987E.5080808@Sun.COM> <20080215080353.GA90173@misty.eyesbeyond.com> Message-ID: <985bee770802151250s18933eb6vb306835dda2e3db1@mail.gmail.com> On Fri, Feb 15, 2008 at 9:03 AM, Greg Lewis wrote: > G'day Carla, > > > On Thu, Feb 14, 2008 at 11:37:34AM -0800, Carla.Schroer at Sun.COM wrote: > > Bringing the BSD port into the OpenJDK Community under the GPL license is > > something that Sun would very much like to see happen. > > The BSD Java community would also very much like to see this happen, so > it seems like we're in complete agreement so far :). I'm sure a lot of people are eager with anticipation to see this happen at Sun, too! I'm looking forward to see this go work out, and if there is anything I can do to help, send me an e-mail. cheers, dalibor topic From dalibor.topic at googlemail.com Fri Feb 15 13:14:21 2008 From: dalibor.topic at googlemail.com (Dalibor Topic) Date: Fri, 15 Feb 2008 22:14:21 +0100 Subject: OpenJDK porters BOF at JavaOne Message-ID: <985bee770802151314q7236b08n8469f35ba448204a@mail.gmail.com> Hi porters, We've got a slot for a BOF at JavaOne (BOF-6191 , OpenJDK? Porters BOF). I hope at least a couple of us can make it over there, and I was wondering what sort of content you'd be interested in participating in. So, who's going to be at J1, and what would you like to talk about? cheers, dalibor topic From springer at reservoir.com Wed Feb 20 12:55:17 2008 From: springer at reservoir.com (Jonathan Springer) Date: Wed, 20 Feb 2008 14:55:17 -0600 Subject: MIPS port project Message-ID: <47BC93B5.5080908@reservoir.com> Hello, I am Jonathan Springer, an engineer at Reservoir Labs, Inc., and the lead on Reservoir's project to port OpenJDK to MIPS, which we call "UltraViolet". Reservoir would like to see broader visibility for this port and hopefully integrate with other efforts that may be going on. This note is to suggest the creation of a new OpenJDK project: the MIPS Port Project. This is not an official proposal, but I hope it becomes one. Reservoir Labs [http://www.reservoir.com/] is a consulting company specializing in compilers, virtual machines, and related technology. We have a long history of commercial work on Java, starting from the "classic" JDK up through Hotspot. Recently we have worked on UltraViolet, a port of OpenJDK to Linux/MIPS64. UltraViolet is currently a functional interpreter-only port, using Hotspot's template interpreter. We are hosting this port [http://java.reservoir.com/] and hope to help coordinate updates. (We expect any contributions to come from SCA signees.) Our goals for the project are to keep the port up-to-date with the OpenJDK base, extend the port with additional features (such as the client and/or server compilers), and generalize the port to other MIPS variants. The project scope is intended to be all MIPS variants, but principally modern MIPS64 and MIPS32, potentially with common recent ISA extensions, running Linux. If anyone has any comments or suggestions, I'd like to hear them. Thanks, -Jonathan -- Jonathan Springer | Reservoir Labs, Inc. | http://www.reservoir.com/ From carfield at carfield.com.hk Thu Feb 21 10:58:01 2008 From: carfield at carfield.com.hk (Carfield Yim) Date: Fri, 22 Feb 2008 02:58:01 +0800 Subject: Possible to use mac os x JDK 1.6 port ( SoyLatte ) to launch AWT / Swing application? Message-ID: I get the following exception: Exception in thread "main" java.lang.UnsatisfiedLinkError: /Users/carfield/soylatte/jre/lib/i386/xawt/libmawt.dylib: dlopen(/Users/carfield/soylatte/jre/lib/i386/xawt/libmawt.dylib, 1): Library not loaded: /usr/X11R6/lib/libXext.6.dylib Referenced from: /Users/carfield/soylatte/jre/lib/i386/xawt/libmawt.dylib Reason: image not found at java.lang.ClassLoader$NativeLibrary.load(Native Method) at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadLibrary0(ClassLoader.java:1770) at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadLibrary(ClassLoader.java:1648) at java.lang.Runtime.load0(Runtime.java:770) at java.lang.System.load(System.java:1005) at java.lang.ClassLoader$NativeLibrary.load(Native Method) at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadLibrary0(ClassLoader.java:1770) at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadLibrary(ClassLoader.java:1669) at java.lang.Runtime.loadLibrary0(Runtime.java:823) at java.lang.System.loadLibrary(System.java:1030) at sun.security.action.LoadLibraryAction.run(LoadLibraryAction.java:50) at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method) at sun.awt.NativeLibLoader.loadLibraries(NativeLibLoader.java:38) at sun.awt.DebugHelper.(DebugHelper.java:29) at java.awt.Component.(Component.java:552) >From the website, it is mentioned it should be ok to run with X11, how can I config it? From glewis at eyesbeyond.com Thu Feb 21 11:09:55 2008 From: glewis at eyesbeyond.com (Greg Lewis) Date: Thu, 21 Feb 2008 11:09:55 -0800 Subject: Possible to use mac os x JDK 1.6 port ( SoyLatte ) to launch AWT / Swing application? In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <20080221190954.GA44083@misty.eyesbeyond.com> G'day, On Fri, Feb 22, 2008 at 02:58:01AM +0800, Carfield Yim wrote: > I get the following exception: > > Exception in thread "main" java.lang.UnsatisfiedLinkError: > /Users/carfield/soylatte/jre/lib/i386/xawt/libmawt.dylib: > dlopen(/Users/carfield/soylatte/jre/lib/i386/xawt/libmawt.dylib, 1): > Library not loaded: /usr/X11R6/lib/libXext.6.dylib These may seem like obvious questions, but does this file exist? That is, do you have X11 installed? This seems like the most likely explanation. > Referenced from: /Users/carfield/soylatte/jre/lib/i386/xawt/libmawt.dylib > Reason: image not found > at java.lang.ClassLoader$NativeLibrary.load(Native Method) > at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadLibrary0(ClassLoader.java:1770) > at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadLibrary(ClassLoader.java:1648) > at java.lang.Runtime.load0(Runtime.java:770) > at java.lang.System.load(System.java:1005) > at java.lang.ClassLoader$NativeLibrary.load(Native Method) > at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadLibrary0(ClassLoader.java:1770) > at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadLibrary(ClassLoader.java:1669) > at java.lang.Runtime.loadLibrary0(Runtime.java:823) > at java.lang.System.loadLibrary(System.java:1030) > at sun.security.action.LoadLibraryAction.run(LoadLibraryAction.java:50) > at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method) > at sun.awt.NativeLibLoader.loadLibraries(NativeLibLoader.java:38) > at sun.awt.DebugHelper.(DebugHelper.java:29) > at java.awt.Component.(Component.java:552) > > >From the website, it is mentioned it should be ok to run with X11, how > can I config it? -- Greg Lewis Email : glewis at eyesbeyond.com Eyes Beyond Web : http://www.eyesbeyond.com Information Technology FreeBSD : glewis at FreeBSD.org From carfield at carfield.com.hk Sat Feb 23 05:02:31 2008 From: carfield at carfield.com.hk (Carfield Yim) Date: Sat, 23 Feb 2008 21:02:31 +0800 Subject: Possible to use mac os x JDK 1.6 port ( SoyLatte ) to launch AWT / Swing application? In-Reply-To: <20080221190954.GA44083@misty.eyesbeyond.com> References: <20080221190954.GA44083@misty.eyesbeyond.com> Message-ID: > > > These may seem like obvious questions, but does this file exist? > That is, do you have X11 installed? This seems like the most likely > explanation. Thanks, that is true, I just thought this is default installed. However, after I installed X11, I found that my application cannot display Chinese character, with UTF-8 encoding. No sure if this is OS X X11 issue or not. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/porters-dev/attachments/20080223/171ebcf7/attachment.html From carfield at carfield.com.hk Sun Feb 24 10:09:56 2008 From: carfield at carfield.com.hk (Carfield Yim) Date: Mon, 25 Feb 2008 02:09:56 +0800 Subject: Add SoyLatte as an Apple JVM to Eclipse configuration Message-ID: The patch of Eclipse Bug 211648 require recompile eclipse. However I am not eclipse developer and it sound like quit a bit of work to recompile an eclipse. Will anyone already rebuild eclipse which allow added SoyLatte as JVM? Can we share a download link of that eclipse build? -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/porters-dev/attachments/20080225/fbcee968/attachment.html From dalibor.topic at googlemail.com Wed Feb 27 06:22:12 2008 From: dalibor.topic at googlemail.com (Dalibor Topic) Date: Wed, 27 Feb 2008 15:22:12 +0100 Subject: MIPS port project In-Reply-To: <47BC93B5.5080908@reservoir.com> References: <47BC93B5.5080908@reservoir.com> Message-ID: <985bee770802270622n6fa92b04j10d516a512c5052@mail.gmail.com> On Wed, Feb 20, 2008 at 9:55 PM, Jonathan Springer wrote: > Hello, > > I am Jonathan Springer, an engineer at Reservoir Labs, Inc., and the > lead on Reservoir's project to port OpenJDK to MIPS, which we call > "UltraViolet". Reservoir would like to see broader visibility for > this port and hopefully integrate with other efforts that may be going > on. This note is to suggest the creation of a new OpenJDK project: > the MIPS Port Project. This is not an official proposal, but I hope > it becomes one. Hi Jonathan, thank you very much for this fine proposal. I invite the porters group Members to review, discuss and help improve your proposal. If, after discussion, the proposal finds a Member willing to support the proposal, the Member should then submit the project proposal to the OpenJDK project's announce and discuss mailing lists per http://openjdk.java.net/projects/ . The further approval process would follow the rules outlined in that document. cheers, dalibor topic