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Porting: Mac OS X Leopard

by Landon Fuller-2 :: Rate this Message:

Given the recent discussion of porting, it was suggested I send this along to the discuss@ list.

I've long wondered what it would take to get the FreeBSD Java Port running on OS X, so this weekend I spent a couple days getting Java 1.6 running on my x86 Leopard machine. I can report partial success -- hotspot compiles, the jre mostly bootstraps, and Hello World runs. Anything complex appears to trigger stack alignment issues (Apple's i386 API requires a 16-byte aligned stack)

landonf@max:javasrc_1_6_jrl/control/build/bsd-i586> ./bin/java -version

java version "1.6.0_03-p3"

Java(TM) SE Runtime Environment (build 1.6.0_03-p3-landonf_04_nov_2007_00_06-b00)

Java HotSpot(TM) Server VM (build 1.6.0_03-p3-landonf_04_nov_2007_01_30-b00, mixed mode)

landonf@max:javasrc_1_6_jrl/control/build/bsd-i586> ./bin/java Hello

Hello World!

Given this, it seems that getting the full JDK running on OS X (using X11, no Aqua) is fairly achievable. I've posted the code, description, etc, here:

http://landonf.bikemonkey.org/code/macosx/FreeBSD_Java_16.20071105.html

Cheers,

-landonf

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