Re: Porting: Mac OS X Leopard

> Landon Fuller wrote:
>
>> 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
>
>
> Great progress!  I note, however that this is work you did on
> JDK 1.6 under the JRL, rather than on OpenJDK under the GPLv2.