Re: [xmlvm-users] Examples for iphone-c target

[Lennie De V. <len...@gm...>]

Where is the C back-end in SVN?

On Thu, Sep 9, 2010 at 10:40 AM, Sascha Haeberling <sa...@xm...> wrote:
> It's similar to the iphone target, but we use it for our current development
> with the C backend. So when you use iphone-c, the generated code will be in
> C and not ObjectiveC. It is a temporary target only. It will eventually
> replace the current 'iphone' target.
> // Sascha
>
> On Thu, Sep 9, 2010 at 10:28 AM, Lennie De Villiers <len...@gm...>
> wrote:
>>
>> What does the new iphone-c target do?
>>
>> On Thu, Sep 9, 2010 at 2:54 AM, Barry Linsdau <bar...@ao...> wrote:
>> > Arno-
>> >
>> > Thanks for the tip, that gives me a starting point.
>> >
>> > What is the plan for implementing the native methods that will be needed
>> > by
>> > the OpenJDK classes? Will they all be hand-implemented, or will you try
>> > to
>> > use OpenJDK's own C implementations of the native methods? That strikes
>> > me
>> > as a bigger implementation headache than the number of dependencies you
>> > are
>> > encountering (I'm sad to say I'm not surprised at the 3K dependencies on
>> > Hello World; I don't think you're going to be able to whittle that down
>> > by
>> > too much without losing some potential functionality).
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > -----Original Message-----
>> > From: Arno Puder <ar...@pu...>
>> > To: xmlvm-users <xml...@li...>
>> > Sent: Wed, Sep 8, 2010 4:33 pm
>> > Subject: Re: [xmlvm-users] Examples for iphone-c target
>> >
>> >
>> > note that the C backend is undergoing rapid changes. Today we managed to
>> > get a first version of iFireworks (XMLVM's trademark application)
>> > working with the C backend. Make sure you update XMLVM and then try
>> > this:
>> > ant
>> > java -Xmx700m -jar dist/xmlvm.jar --target=iphone-c \
>> >       --app-name=iFireworks \
>> >       --resource=demo/iphone/ifireworks/ires/ \
>> >       --in=build/demo/iphone/ifireworks/org/xmlvm/demo/ifireworks \
>> >       --out=out
>> > open out/iFireworks.xcodeproj/
>> > There are two big todo items at this point:
>> > 1. Implement the Cocoa wrappers. In many cases it should be possible
>> >     to migrate the existing Objective-C wrapper.
>> > 2. OpenJDK: the iFireworks demo uses hand-written versions of dependent
>> >     J2SE classes (such as java.lang.String). Our plan is to
>> > cross-compile
>> >     OpenJDK. The good news is that the C backend is powerful enough
>> >     to cross-compile OpenJDK. But the bad news is that we are struggling
>> >     with dependencies. A simple Hello World pulls in 3000(!) classes
>> >     from the OpenJDK.
>> > Things are moving fast and I'm sure we'll find solutions to the
>> > remaining problems. Stay tuned.
>> > Arno
>> > On 9/8/10 3:35 PM, Barry Linsdau wrote:
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> Are there any "Hello World" examples of the new "iphone-c" target out
>> >> there? None of my experiments seem to be generating anything that will
>> >> compile.
>> >>
>> >>
>> >>
>> >>
>> >>
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