OpenJDK explorations

I created a VMWare image with Ubuntu 10.04.3 to use for building OpenJDK 8.
With a clean Ubuntu install, including latest updates, I followed this guide: http://hg.openjdk.java.net/jdk8/jdk8/raw-file/tip/README
1. Installed mercurial
apt-get install mercurial

2. Created dir "Projects", in which I cloned the OpenJDK Mercurial repository:
hg clone http://hg.openjdk.java.net/jdk8/jdk8 JAmigaOpenJDK
cd JamigaOpenJDK
sh ./get_source.sh

3. The readme on howto install the Bootstrap JDK tells us to install JDK 6. However, JDK 8 needs JDK 7. This turned out not to be as easy as "aptitude openjdk-7", since the Ubuntu 10 aptitude repository doesn't contain JDK 7. Google helped me find: instructions on how to do it. You apparently should download the thing from Oracle directly. So:
3.1. Download Java 7 SDK from Oracle.
3.2. Untar and move to /usr/lib/jvm
tar xf jdk-7u3-linux-i586.tar.gz
mv jdk1.7.0_3 /usr/lib/jvm
export LANG=C ALT_BOOTDIR=/usr/lib/jvm/jdk1.7.0_3

Now the sanity check should complete ok (remember to CD to JAmigaOpenJDK):
make sanity
...
Sanity check passed.


4. FreeType needs to be in version 2.3 or newer. Running freetype-config --ftversion said version 2.3.11 was installed. Must be good, right?

5. Apache Ant v 1.7.1 is also required, which already is available in my Ubuntu.

6. Next, fire away a make all and patiently wait.
make all

7. The build/linux-i586/j2re-image directory contain the stuff built.

in order to ease my development I downloaded a JDK branch: hg.openjdk.java.net/jdk8/jdk8/jdk/rev/0b052b7f3f83 using the ZIP-link at hg.openjdk.java.net, jdk8/jdk8/jdk. This contains the bsd/linux/macosx/solaris/windows and share stuff. This should be the place to put JAmiga specific stuff. My aim is to build this on the Amiga, and use j2re-image. I'm assuming this won't work in the long run; I'll probably have to change some stuff in my JAmigaOpenJDK-ubuntu install and rebuild to get everything correct.

At it, again

After my last JAmiga-hiatus, I am now trying to remember what I previously did, and what and I should do next. Looking at my own local classpath files, I am kind of confused over what I have done, which files have change, and what I haven't done. Meanwhile, the GNU Classpath has been released in version 0.99, which is somewhat a surprise to me, since I thought it was more or less abandoned in favour of OpenJDK. Anyhow, my two options for my continued effort to get JAmiga more amture is to either clean up the mess I have with the GNU Classpath, or do some testing with OpenJDK. I am really tempted to take a look at OpenJDK 8, since it really seems to be the most wise thing to do. Either way, I have already begun the work in creating a JVM-interface which should work with both GNU Classpath and OpenJDK. So at worst, I will get some knowledge in OpenJDK but resort to continuing with the GNU Classpath on JAmiga.

Currently, my Mac is at hard work installing Ubuntu, on to which I will do my OpenJDK explorations. And this time I will document every single thing I do.