[Ikvm-developers] Easiest current way to set up development env?

[Jason H. <ja...@pl...>]

Hi

I'd like to set up a dev environment so that I can remove bits of
IKVM.OpenJDK.ClassLibrary.dll. [1] & [2]

I'd like advice pls on the easiest way to get an operational
development environment (either on Linux, or Vista + Visual Studio
2008).  I couldn't seem to find build instructions per se on either
the website or in the sources.

I started on Vista with VS9,  downloaded IKVM from CVS, and then got
the OpenJDK 7-b11.  Then I guessed I would have had to make it using
Cygwin ... then I found instructions at [2], but openjdk-b13
referenced there doesn't work with allsources from CVS.

So are there classpath-xx-stripped.zip and openjdk-xxx-stripped.zip
which can be downloaded from somewhere which work with current CVS
head?

If not, if I do make jdk6-b11 (not -b10, which is the one referenced
in the .build file), under cygwin (or on Linux for that matter), is
that likely to work with IKVM from CVS head?

I guess worst case is to go back to ikvm-0.36.0.5.zip.

Alternatively, are there current instructions handy for building
starting with a binary or source install of Mono (on Linux
preferably)?
The instructions at [3], and the nuXleus VMware appliance both
pre-date use of OpenJDK.

thanks

Jason



[1] http://weblog.ikvm.net/CommentView.aspx?guid=57b1b4e1-778e-4487-89ce-34ab2b1a1de8
[2] http://www.nabble.com/how-to-override-classpath,-e.g.-endorsed-directory---re-compile-IKVM.OpenJDK.ClassLibrary.dll-td15621974.html
[3] http://weblog.ikvm.net/CommentView.aspx?guid=d98e0bf8-b252-4c13-9e25-b72a55068fd2
[4] http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=466336