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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.eng.convex.com!newshost.convex.com!newsgate.duke.edu!news.mathworks.com!fu-berlin.de!unlisys!news.maz.net!news.ppp.net!news.Hanse.DE!wavehh.hanse.de!cracauer From: cracauer@wavehh.hanse.de (Martin Cracauer) Subject: Re: JAVA support for NetBSD-1.2 i386?? Message-ID: <1996Dec9.165500.29167@wavehh.hanse.de> Reply-To: cracauer@wavehh.hanse.de Organization: Internet Breakdown Task Force References: <32A99954.41C67EA6@oz.net> Date: Mon, 9 Dec 96 16:55:00 GMT Lines: 38 Bill&Virginia Hodges <hodges@oz.net> writes: >Has anybody found a way to develop JAVA on NetBSD? >I downloaded the JGL executables from Sun for Solarus i86 >and they are elf format and would not run. I have no machine to test here, but as far as I know the COMPAT_SVR4 emulation of NetBSD is sufficient to run Sun's JDK, at least the non-graphics stuff. Alternativly: - seek for Kaffe, which is a free virtual machine (be sure to get version 0.6.x or greater) - You could use guavac to compile Java files (and view them using Netscape Navigator) - From time to time on of the Navigator betas is capable of running the flags '-java class.name', which turns it into a java virtal machine. - You might try the FreeBSD version of the JDK at ftp://freefall.freebsd.org/pub/LOCAL_PORTS (or such, easy to find). You will have to set up COMPAT_FREEBSD and FreeBSD's shared libs. - You might try the Linux version, using COMPAT_LINUX. - You might get the sources for the JDk from Sun and try to port it (not easy, but not impossible also). Martin -- %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% Martin_Cracauer@wavehh.hanse.de http://cracauer.cons.org Fax.: +4940 5228536 "As far as I'm concerned, if something is so complicated that you can't ex- plain it in 10 seconds, then it's probably not worth knowing anyway"- Calvin