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

[Andïï <gnu...@me...>]

On 21 May 2014 23:19, Ulrich Herberg <ul...@he...> wrote:
> 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
>
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Grab the latest IcedTea release:

http://blog.fuseyism.com/index.php/2014/04/16/security-icedtea-2-4-7-for-openjdk-7-released/

and build with ./configure --enable-jamvm
-- 
Andii :-)