2002/08/07 03:22:58

[org.ibex.core.git] / README

diff --git a/README b/README
index 4ff3a68..e3ca552 100644 (file)
--- a/README
+++ b/README
@@ -95,7 +95,7 @@ The name of any class in org.xwt.plat is a valid <platform>; here is a
 list as of 20-Mar-2002:
 
     Win32         - Windows 95 / NT4 or later
-    Java2         - Any Java 1.2+ compliant JVM
+    Java12        - Any Java 1.2+ compliant JVM
 
 Valid <target>s are:
 
@@ -131,11 +131,9 @@ Building
   without it, however, since it puts additional strain on the gcc cvs
   server.
 
-  There are also three patches at the end of this file which can be
-  applied to the branch -- the first fixes a bug related to
-  GetFullPathName, the second disables Win32 file locking (so you can
-  view XWT's log files while it is running), and the third makes
-  Throwable.printStackTrace() work.
+  There are also two patches at the end of this file which can be
+  applied to the branch -- the first fixes an inet_addr() bug on
+  Win32, the second enables stack traces.
 
   # create an install area
   export CLASSPATH=
@@ -197,6 +195,63 @@ Building
 
 
 ______________________________________________________________________________
+Native-Code "ant"
+
+** THIS DOESN'T WORK YET **
+
+Ant takes a long time to start up, mainly because it has to load a
+JVM. If you compile ant to native code using GCJ, it will load much
+more quickly. So far, this only works on Linux.
+
+    mkdir /tmp/ant
+    cd /tmp/ant
+    jar xvf ~/xwt/lib/ant.jar
+    for A in `find * -name \*.properties -or -name \*.txt -or -name \*.mf`
+        do gcj -c --resource $A $A -o $A.o
+    done
+    CLASSPATH= gcj --main=org.apache.tools.ant.Main \
+               `find . -name \*.class -or -name \*.o` -o ant
+    mv ant ~/xwt/ant
+
+
+______________________________________________________________________________
+inet_addr patch
+
+Index: java/net/natInetAddress.cc
+===================================================================
+RCS file: /cvs/gcc/gcc/libjava/java/net/natInetAddress.cc,v
+retrieving revision 1.18.18.1
+diff -u -r1.18.18.1 natInetAddress.cc
+--- java/net/natInetAddress.cc  4 Mar 2002 20:02:19 -0000       1.18.18.1
++++ java/net/natInetAddress.cc  27 May 2002 22:54:40 -0000
+@@ -9,6 +9,7 @@
+ details.  */
+
+ #include <config.h>
++#include <platform.h>
+
+ #ifdef WIN32
+
+Index: include/win32.h
+===================================================================
+RCS file: /cvs/gcc/gcc/libjava/include/win32.h,v
+retrieving revision 1.3.8.5
+diff -u -r1.3.8.5 win32.h
+--- include/win32.h     24 Apr 2002 01:04:45 -0000      1.3.8.5
++++ include/win32.h     27 May 2002 22:54:40 -0000
+@@ -35,4 +35,8 @@
+    ARRAY and return the exact number of values stored.  */
+ extern int backtrace (void **__array, int __size);
+
++// configure cannot correctly detect inet_addr due to Win32's
++// oddball header naming scheme
++#define HAVE_INET_ADDR
++
+ #endif /* __JV_WIN32_H__ */
+
+
+
+______________________________________________________________________________
 Throwable.printStackTrace() patch
 
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