Re: Java jdk - How to make it work?

[David Brownlee <abs%netbsd.org@localhost>]

On 16 September 2011 15:44, herbert langhans 
<herbert.raimund%gmx.net@localhost> wrote:
> Hi List,
> this might sound trivial - but I need Java (interpreter? compiler?) on
> my NetBSD 5.0 Laptop.
>
> I tried to pkg_add some packages, some stop installing. Couple of Java
> related stuff is there too and I dont know what I need for the simple
> task to invoke #java somescriptthere ..
>
> Its for an Arduino IDE - its a Linux-Java code. Maybe someone can give
> me a hint or has even been sucessful with such combination.

I suspect you will have you build it from source in pkgsrc, but I have
had success with lang/openjdk7 on amd64 (and heard of others using it
on i386)