[kaffe] Installation on Windows 2000

Nicholas Wourms nwourms@myrealbox.com
Wed, 07 Aug 2002 08:00:45 -0400


I was able to get it start building as well, but I was attempting to use 
pthread support, which Cygwin choked on.  Jim had recognized the issue, 
but so far no one has proposed a fix.  I'll give it another shot, but 
IIRC the autoconf scripts were PITA (sorry Jim) to fix.  The second 
problem is how do you intend to bootstrap kaffe now that it requires a 
javac to build?   As for this issue, is it possible to bootstrap kaffe 
with gcj?  I suppose one could try using the window native jdk, but 
again that is a PITA and not a gpl'ed solution...  Oh well, just my 
thoughts on the topic.

Cheers,
Nicholas

Jim Pick wrote:

>I got 1.0.7 to build (and partially work) on my WinXP / cygwin
>installation (which is probably many months old).  I don't think it's
>been well tested on other configurations.  Unfortunately, since you're
>the only one with access to your system, you'll probably have to try to
>debug the configure script yourself.  Don't be afraid to hack it.  You
>didn't say exactly how it failed - if it's a failure related to uname,
>you might try modifying config.sub or config.guess.
>
>Cheers,
>
> - Jim
>
>On Fri, 2002-08-02 at 06:23, Muthuswamy R wrote:
>
>>hi guys,
>>      I just started installing on Windows 2000 thru Cygwin. Even the
>>configure script is not running properly. 
>> 
>> One issue is like uname -s is displaying CYGWIN_NT-5.0.
>>
>>can anybody who had installed before, help me
>>
>>thx
>>muthu.
>>