classpath 0.18rc1/cvs on OS-X

[Andreas Tobler]

Hello,

a short notice from my side. I'm pretty happy about the work which has 
been done so far. With a few initial, maybe hard, steps one should be 
able to run classpath with jamvm or kaffe on OS-X (10.4.2). Attached two 
simple shots.

On the classpath side most of the tweaks are in cvs, the support for qt4 
 peers on native OS-X is missing atm, but I hope I get that running in 
the next release.

On jamvm we have to do some hacks, not only darwin. (release 1.3.2 
RawData* vs. Pointer*, RawData* has been replaced with Pointer*) The 
darwin specific thing is to replace the shared library extension to 
dylib iso so.

Kaffe contains also most of the things needed, except it should be built 
with engine=intrp versus the default jit3. Here I need to replace all 
the .so instances with dylibs. Machinery work,

If you want to have java gui things, it is a bit of work to get a 
gtk-2.8 library up. Also the X11 which is shipped with darwin is to old, 
use a current Xorg cvs and do a make World inside the src directory.

If you have a running gtk chain and the up-to-date auto tool chain you 
can build classpath and you hopefully see gui's like the attached.

If you want to go a step further, grab the qt sources for mac from 
trolltech and build them.
.....

I'm happy to write down some step-by-step instructions if there is 
interest. But for tonight I'm simply to tired ;)

And last but not least, I should not forget to mention that the whole 
work can be seen and used in gcc/gcj/libgcj when we merge classpath into 
libgcj. Then you can build the same applications in native form.

A big thanks to the classpath/gcj/libgcj team (alphabetical order) for 
the hard and amazing work!!

Andreas