jdk @ amd64?

[Sean McNeil]

On Fri, 2004-11-19 at 16:58 -0800, David O'Brien wrote:
> On Sat, Nov 20, 2004 at 12:33:51AM +0100, Palle Girgensohn wrote:
> > I've been trying to dig the archives for info about running a native JDK 
> > 1.4 on an AMD64 system (Dell 2850, really "EM64T"?).
> > 
> > Can anyone get me up to speed with how this is done, if it is possible? Do 
> > I need lib32 stuff to run the jdk, and is that what the 
> > src/tools/lib32/build32.sh script creates? Is it not possible to run the 
> > JDK in "native" AMD64?
> 
> Sun did not port the JDK to the AMD64 platform until version 1.5.  So if
> you want 1.4 you have to use a 32-bit version.  You can either use the
> Linux JDK or maybe even the 32-bit FreeBSD/i386 one.

JDK 1.5 sources are now available from Sun and the Java team is working
on a native version (first i386, then amd64).  I am eagerly awaiting
this myself and have given some thought at trying out 1.5 sources.  In
the meantime, I am using jdk 1.4 in Linux32 compatibility mode.  This
doesn't help in all cases as things like Eclipse needs a native Java.

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