[Sablevm-developer] installing on NetBSD/OpenBSD (sparc)

[Riccardo M. <ro...@ti...>]

Hello,

I give here a list of steps I did for installation on my sparc boxen:

NetBSD/1.6.2 (sparc) and OpenBSD/3.5

- install GNU make (gmake)
- install all available libaries from the pkgsrc tree. (libtool,
popt...) but not libffi: it will fail
- install libffi. This is tricky, I split it up in
	- patch the assembler sources (with patch already sent to the list) so
not to confuse gcc/as/cpp
	- patch to add OpenBSD/sparc as a supported platform (not needed for
NetBSD)
	- build and install
	- patch the ffi.h so not to fail with an error for "unsupported 64 bit
data types"
	- manually install /usr/local/include/ffitarget.h (it is present in the
include dir of the ffi build directory, but doesn't get installed
automatically)
- configure sablevm. On NetBSD, which has some libraries in /usr/local
(our libffi for example) and some in /usr/pkg/lib I used:
./configure -C LDFLAGS="-L/usr/local/lib -L/usr/pkg/lib"
CPPFLAGS="-I/usr/local/include -I/usr/pkg/include"
(the -C enables caching)
- gmake, gmake install

- configure and buidl classpath. I disabled gtk peers.


and now test... and see that it runs :)

I hope to be able to add SavleVM benchmars soon in my java benchmarking
and comparison effort. (Look for "architectural benchmarks")

For the online 24/7 version:
http://homepage.mac.com/riccardo_mottola/kaffe-devel/

or for the bleeding edge, local version (if you find my workstation
up...):
http://multix.dyndns.org/Sites/kaffe-devel/

- Riccardo
  (aka grey_gandalf or multix on IRC)
PS:
If you are really curious, SableVM was built on my own sparc boxes:
Mallorn (some benchs already show up) and Rochben.