Received: from SOUTH-STATION-ANNEX.MIT.EDU by po7.MIT.EDU (5.61/4.7) id AA03219; Tue, 13 Feb 96 23:58:33 EST Received: from liquor.cabi.net by MIT.EDU with SMTP id AA01746; Tue, 13 Feb 96 23:58:02 EST Received: by liquor.cabi.net (8.7.3/8.7.3) id UAA24613; Tue, 13 Feb 1996 20:09:34 -0500 Resent-Date: Tue, 13 Feb 1996 20:09:34 -0500 X-Sender: chapman@saul1.u.washington.edu Date: Tue, 13 Feb 1996 17:07:33 -0800 (PST) From: Randy Chapman To: java-linux@substance.blackdown.org Subject: kaffe Message-Id: Foo: foo-bar Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Resent-Message-Id: <"nag9w1.0.K_5.sNJ8n"@liquor> Resent-From: java-linux@java.blackdown.org X-Mailing-List: archive/latest/1134 X-Loop: java-linux@java.blackdown.org Precedence: list Resent-Sender: java-linux-request@java.blackdown.org Found this on comp.lang.java from a FreeBSD group. Its pretty trivial to get working on linux, you need to change the makefile to use -G instead of -Bshareable for the dynamic library, and to add -export-dynamic to the compile flags for the base application. Also, you must change the call to dlsym(...) to skip over the first character of the symbol. I'll talk to the author about the needed changes. Thanks, --randy Announcing the release of Kaffe-0.1 =================================== Kaffe is a clean-room Java(tm)* compatible virtual machine interpreter and translator. Unlike the current version distributed by Sun's Javasoft*, this system performs "on-the-fly" conversion of the Java virtual machine code into native machine code. This allows execution of Java code at speeds approaching standard compiled code but maintains Java machine code independence. *NOTE*, this is version 0.1. This should indicate something about the stability and completeness of this program to you (if it was finished it'd be called 1.0 wouldn't it). However even this version will run simple applications and compile programs using Javasoft's Javac. The current version is available at the following: ftp.sarc.city.ac.uk:/pub/kaffe/kaffe-0.1.tgz For the moment it only supports FreeBSD-2.1.0, although a Linux port is forth coming (just as soon as I can get hold of a Linux machine). Other ports will be added as and when I have time. Enjoy. * Java and Javasoft are registered trademark of Sun Microsystems, Inc.