[kaffe] Kaffe as the main JVM

[jerome moliere]

Dalibor Topic wrote:

> jerome moliere wrote:
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>> Hi,
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>
> Salut Jerome,
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>> I saw the X dependency from the kaffe code & sounds complicated to 
>> have such layer on windows !!!
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> yes;) there is Xfree for cygwin, but you already ruled Cygwin out.
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> In theory, there is also a port of kaffe's AWT to MFC in the 
> libraries/clib/awt/win32 directory. I have no idea if it works.

interesting :)
so many sub projects...

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>> but the other port , requiring  QT is not much more easy to use 
>> because this layer has a cost & I'm not sure I can afford a such cost.
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> If you mean licensing costs, Qt2 us available free of charge for Win32 
> systems under a license allowing non-commercial use, see [1]. But 
> looking more closely, I see that they have clarified the implications 
> for GPLd projects linking to it. So you wouldn't be allowed to link 
> kaffe to it.
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> Your best bet (beside buying a Qt Windows license) is then using (and 
> most probably fixing) kaffe's win32-MFC based AWT implementation.

ok, we'll inevstigate on it...

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>> In fact, my problem is a bandwith one, we must offer a solution 
>> requiring the smallest download as possible....
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> hm, with the current kaffe in CVS on i386-linux, with sound enabled, 
> and Xlib based AWT, installed using 'make install-strip', and after 
> removing includes, man pages, the kjc compiler, etc, I can put the 
> installation on a zip archive of 3051518 bytes. You could probably 
> shave off another 300k by removing the debugging symbols from the java 
> libraries.
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> If your customer's applets don't use any of Java 1.4 or 1.3 features, 
> you can remove those classes from the class library (sound, jaxp, 
> etc.), giving you another big decrease in installation size. A bare 
> bones minimal rt.jar is around 350k (without AWT or applet support). 
> The full-featured rt.jar is around 2.4M. So there is some room for 
> trimming it down if you are sure that you won't need everything.

no in fact I just need to have a 1.1.8 like JVM...
so JAXP, sound & other org.omg stuff is not required for me ...

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> Note that the numbers on a MSVC++ (or mingw) compiled win32 
> installation are going to be different for the C/C++ binaries. How 
> different I can't say, as I haven't built kaffe using MSVC++ (or 
> mingw) myself.
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>> In fact what about the size of the lightest bundle : VM + QT ?( on 
>> windows)
>> we should deliver a solution with asize < 2Mb ?
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> that could be possible, if you don't need things like JAXP, Sound, 
> javax.* packages, etc.
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yes
thanks
Jerome