Classpath on Cygwin: HOWTO

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On Thu, Mar 02, 2006 at 04:11:10PM +0100, Enrico Migliore wrote:
> Hi Mark and Dalibor,
> 
> I've finally finished this detailed document, that explains how to 
> build Classpath 0.20 on Cygwin.
> The following steps were tested on Windows XP Home and Win2000 
> Professional.
> 
> Enrico
> 
> 
> 1. Download the latest version of the Cygwin installer
> ------------------------------------------------------
>  
>   http://www.cygwin.com/setup.exe
> 
> 
> 2. Run the installer: setup.exe
> -----------------------------
> 
>   Choose "Install from Internet" and follow the instructions until
>   the installer prompts a Windows named:
> 
>   "Cygwin Setup - Select Packages"
> 
>   The installer has already selected the base packages to download,
>   now you need to add some more packages.
> 
> 
> 3. Add the following packages to the download list
> ---------------------------------------------------
> 
>   Archive/zip
> 
>   Devel/gcc-g++
>   Devel/make
>   Devel/automake 1.9
>   Devel/autoconfig 2.1
>   Devel/libtool 1.5
>   Devel/pkgconfig
>   Devel/atk 1.5           (all files)
>   Devel/pango             (all files)
> 
>   Graphics/gtk2-x11       (all files)
> 
>   X11/gtk+                (all files)
>   X11/gtk-engines
>   X11/xorg-x11            (all files)
> 
> 
>   Note that some packages may have been already selected by the installer.
> 
> 
> 4. Download jikes-1.22
> ------------------------
> 
>   http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/jikes/jikes-1.22.tar.bz2?download
> 
> 
> 5. Unzip jikes-1.22.tar.bz2 with one of the following utilities
> ------------------------------------------------------------
> 
>   winrar   (Windows utility)
> 
>   tar      (Cygwin utility:  $tar -xjf jikes-1.22.tar.bz2)
> 
> 
> 6. Apply the following patch to the file .src/platform.cpp
> --------------------------------------------------------
> 
>   
> http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=1202863&group_id=128803&atid=712760
> 
>   The patch is reported here:
> 
>   Index: src/platform.cpp
>   ======================================
>   RCS file: /cvsroot/jikes/jikes/src/platform.cpp,v
>   retrieving revision 1.47
>   diff -u -r1.47 platform.cpp
>   --- src/platform.cpp 23 Mar 2004 14:03:56 -0000
>   1.47
>   +++ src/platform.cpp 16 May 2005 14:28:13 -0000
>   @@ -201,15 +201,6 @@
>   int SystemStat(const char* name, struct stat* stat_struct)
>   {
>       int result = ::stat(name, stat_struct);
>       -#ifdef HAVE_SYS_CYGWIN_H
>       - //
>       - // Up through cygwin 1.3.10, the hash function which determines 
> inodes
>       - // was not strong enough, so java/net and java/nio occasionally 
> get the
>       - // same inode without this hack.
>       - //
>       - if (result == 0)
>       - stat_struct -> st_ino += name[strlen(name) - 1];
>       -#endif // HAVE_SYS_CYGWIN_H
>       return result;
>   }
> 
> 
> 7. Build jikes-1.22
> -------------------
> 
>   $ ./configure
>   $ make
>   $ make install
>   $ make clean
> 
> 


you can save yourself steps 4-7, since jikes 1.22 is now part of cygwin.

cheers,
dalibor topic


> 8. Download Classpath-0.20
> -----------------------------
> 
>   http://www.gnu.org/software/classpath/
> 
> 
> 9. Unzip classpath-0.20.tar.gz with one of the following utilities
> ---------------------------------------------------------------
> 
>   winrar   (Windows utility)
> 
>   tar      (Cygwin utility)
> 
> 
> 10. Build Classpth-0.20
> ------------------------
> 
>   $ ./configure --with-jikes --enable-gtk-peer
>   $ make
>   $ make install
>   $ make clean
> 
> 
>   The install process will print quite a few Java and C warnings.
> 
>   Note also that, since jni is enabled by default, ---enable-jni is not 
> needed.
> 
> 
> 11. The building process will install the Classpath library here
> -------------------------------------------------------------
>  
>   /usr/local/classpath/share/classpath/glibj.zip
> 
> 
> 
> --------------------------------- The End --------------------------------
> 
> The time required to do everything is about 30 minutes on a 1 GHz PC.
> 
> If you are a developer, you might want to install the following packages,
> which, by the way, are not required to build Classpath:
> 
>   Devel/gdb               (all files)
>   Devel/ddd               (all files)
>   Devel/subversion        (all files)
> 
> gdb is the GNU command line debugger, ddd is the GUI front-end of gdb,
> and subversion is a utility to check-out and check-in the source code
> of a versioned project.


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