Subject: Re: java compiler, anyone?
To: John Ruschmeyer <jruschme@exit109.com>
From: Hauke Fath <hauke@Espresso.Rhein-Neckar.DE>
List: port-mac68k
Date: 12/16/1998 21:06:22
At 5:54 Uhr +0100 16.12.1998, John Ruschmeyer wrote:
>> If you are looking for a java *compiler* and not a java *VM* you may want
>> to look at IBM's Jikes on (iirc) {www.}alphaworks.ibm.com. They have just
>> jumped on the opensource bandwaggon - the thing is said to build on L*nux,
>> so I don't see why it shouldn't build on NetBSD.
>
>I started looking at Jikes with the idea of building it on my NetBSD/sparc
>system. The big problem seems to be that the Jikes code is heavily
>dependant on the Unicode support in Linux. Specifcally, most files try
>to #include <wchar.h> as well as make calles to wcslen(), neither of
>which seem to be supported on NetBSD (1.3.2, at least).

What a pity. I suppose that this is a libc issue? Is wide char support part
of ANSI C?

Still, m68k will probably never be a viable Java platform, for good or bad.

	hauke





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