[haiku-development] Re: Current status of Apache Harmony port to Haiku - javac and other tools now available
- From: fano il primo <fanoilprimo@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: haiku-development@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sun, 11 Dec 2011 16:35:32 +0100
On Sun, Dec 11, 2011 at 7:08 AM, Dhruwat Bhagat <unitedronaldo@xxxxxxxxx>wrote:
> Hi,
> I had mailed last week on the progress on Apache Harmony port to
> Haiku.
>
> I think some people might have missed it so I am posting it again on a new
> thread.
>
> I have now updated to build process so that it now compiles the java tools
> (which includes javac) as well.
> I have uploaded the latest binaries on haikuware.com again.
>
> Also, you can now directly compile harmony from ant, provided you have
> harmony binaries to run ant.
> This takes care of the chicken-and-egg problem of using ant to build
> harmony when you don't have java available in the first place.
>
> I have tested this by using the harmony binaries to compile the harmony
> sources sucessfully.
>
> However, there are a few issues:
>
> 1. This release would still work only with a post-Alpha3 installation.
> This is because of the better pthread API support post -Alpha3.
>
> 2. Also, you will need a gcc4 or hybrid installation, as this release is
> compiled with gcc4.
> There was some issues with the preprocessor macros that prevented me from
> compiling for gcc2 .
>
> 3. Although harmony on haiku normally runs fine, it sporadically hangs up
> on longer runs and doesn't exit cleanly when you kill it . I ran into this
> issue when when running ant.
> Which would usually finish normally, but would sometimes hang up in the
> middle. The threads start yielding and never stop doing that. So I would
> have to kill and restart build process.
>
>
> I think the current source repository will not hold up well as it is
> currently set up on my home NAS.
> So maybe we should move it to a free repository online, like github, or
> whichever place seems more suitable to the interested in its development.
>
> They could take commit rights to the new repository and the maintainers
> of the Haiku project could help decide who should get them.
>
> Also, There is a GCI task for creating a Haikuport that is yet to be
> submitted which has Jack Laxson and me as mentors.
>
> I would submit it once its steps look good so we can have a student build
> a Haikuport
> that can be used by interested folks.
>
> Regards,
> Dhruwat
>
I've something to ask:
1. So now Harmony compiles itself?
2. javac can compile simple cmdline apps (hello world and son) ?
3. java can run them?
4. In your opinion how much time we've to wait to have java GUI app?
Thanks for the good work,
fano
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