Next release of AlphaCore?/What do we really need?

[Sergey Tikhonov]

Mike Barnes wrote:

> On 13/02/2006, at 6:44 PM, Jon_norstog AKA Thursday wrote:
>
>> This is not a simple request, as I learned when I tried building it  for
>> Alpha.  There are dependencies on dependencies, plus you have to  have a
>> current Java development kit.  Which Sun has not releASEed the source
>> code for and has not ported to Alpha since something like JDK 1.3.  (I
>> hear there is a work-around but it could be gossip)
>
>
> I seem to recall that the newer builds of OpenOffice are quite happy  
> using GCJ for their Java requirements, instead of Sun's JDK. This  
> shouldn't be an issue. The big stumbling block in the past was the  
> huge amount of non 64-bit clean code, which is why 64-bit x86 and PPC  
> platforms still run a version compiled for their 32-bit counterparts  
> - or they did, last time I checked.
>
> I haven't looked at OO for over a year now, but I remember discussing  
> it with someone once and getting the idea that getting it running  
> using dynamic x86 emulation might be quicker. :)

I tried to play with it recently. OO happily uses GCJ java, but still 
not 64-bit clean yet. There is still huge 64-bit patch pending from 
amd64 porting project. They were going to split it into smaller parts 
and try to integrate... After it is done - we still would need to write 
some kind of
trampoline code.

Regards,

-- 
Sergey Tikhonov
Solvo Ltd.
tsv at solvo.ru