Re: [Jamvm-general] What's the status of jamvm 1.6.0?

[Ulrich H. <ul...@he...>]

Hi Robert,

thanks for your answer! See inline:

On Wed, May 21, 2014 at 3:03 PM, Robert Lougher <rob...@gm...> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On 21 May 2014 21:38, Ulrich Herberg <ul...@he...> wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I just saw this discussion on the list, and I am also very interested
>> in running JamVM on buildroot. I tried compiling the non-release
>> version, but it fails running with
>>
>> Exception occurred while VM initialising.
>> java/lang/NoClassDefFoundError: jamvm/java/lang/VMClassLoaderData
>>
>
> This normally happens when you copy things around so that the
> class-library zips and libraries are not where JamVM is expecting
> them.  If you do jamvm -version this will show where it is looking
> (boot library path and boot classpath).


Thanks, I will check this.

>
>> (this may be an issue with buildroot, so maybe this mailing list is
>> not the right place to discuss it).
>>
>> Basically, I need Java 7 for buildroot, and I only found JamVM, but
>> JamVM claims to only support Java 1.5. Is that correct?
>>
>
> Well, purely as a VM, JamVM supports the latest Java 1.8 features but
> this can only be used with OpenJDK 8.  When used with GNU Classpath
> the problem is GNU Classpath only supports Java 1.5 (with some bits
> from 1.6).


I understand. Is there any description how to use OpenJDK 8 (or 7)
with buildroot and JamVM?

Best regards
Ulrich