[kaffe] Cygwin Build Error--kaffe 1.1.5--/kaffevm/jit/methodcalls.c:162

[Dalibor Topic]

4C/Gilbert T. Williams wrote:
> Greetings:
> 
>  
> 
> Someone who has built kaffe 1.1.5 on cygwin may be able to help me.  TIA!

Hi Gilbert,

I've just gone through making the CVS head build and work (mostly) on 
Cygwin.

> I am evaluating Kaffe for use on an embedded platform.  As a starting 
> point, I would like to get a clean build from source
> 
> on my cygwin installation using:
> 
> 1. Windows XP (Home Edition Service Pack 2)
> 
> 2. CYGWIN_NT-5.1
> 
> 3. gcc 3.4.4 (cygming special)
> 
> 4. jikes 1.22 – built using the gcc 3.4.4, so it appears that the 
> overall build environment is OK.

You may need to apply a patch or two to jikes to have it actually work:
http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=1202863&group_id=128803&atid=712760
http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=1202185&group_id=128803&atid=712760

I had to, at least. ;)

> 5. gnu ld 2.16.91

> ./configure --with-staticlib --with-staticbin

what I use is:

../kaffe/configure CC="ccache gcc" CXX="ccache g++" --with-gc=kaffe-gc 
--disable-native-awt --with-staticvm --with-staticbin
--with-threads=unix-jthreads --enable-pure-java-math --prefix=/tmp/kaffe

the ccache bits speed compilation on Cygwin considerably if you are 
hacking on C & C++ code or have to wait for ages for configure. It still 
takes hours on my 600MHz Win98 notebook, but hey ... ;)

--with-gc=kaffe-gc sets the gc to kafe'S gc. it's the default, anyway, 
but I've had configure scripts to stupid things on cygwin, so I set it 
manually to work around whatever made me set it manually. You may not 
need to set it explicitely.

--disable-native-awt disables the AWT build. You're probably not 
interested in building graphical applications for Cygwin/XFree86 and 
enabling it means dealing with X11 headers, Gtk+, ... which I didnt have 
time for. Bug reports and in particular fixes and screenshots 
appreciated, if you are interested in that. But then, I'd recommend 
trying to get Kaffe built with the Qt4 peers. ;)

--with-staticvm --with-staticbin was the combination that works for me, 
without linking problems on CVS head.

--with-threads=unix-jthreads sets the threading model to jthreads, since 
the default pthreads seem to spend a few seconds getting stuck somewhere 
  deep in windows/cygwin libraries, and eventually produce a warning 
message from Cygwin that confuses the test scripts.

--enable-pure-java-math If you are not using crypto and don't have gmp 
installed.

--prefix=/tmp/kaffe That's just me setting the prefix for the resulting 
binary to keep different versions apart.

With this setup, and after a round or two of make && make check, I get 
63 passes out of 148 regression tests with jit3. There probably are 
various issues that the compiler warnings should be able to help you 
fix, I'd appreciate patches.

cheers,
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