Fw: Building 0.8.4 From Source?

[Marc Stiegler]

Sorry, I've only been running under Linux, not building. I haven't done a
full build in ages--my usual build environment, IBM VisualAge, doesn't quite
cut the mustard for building E, as you may recall (actually, the compiler
probably works fine, but the jvm has a mysterious bug).

Once the E jar is made, the only problem I've had on Linux has been that for
one application (Securit-Edesk), the GUI version often slows down and
eventually dies on an Out Of Memory Error thrown deep in AWT. I get this
problem with the blackdown 1.1.7 jvm. Haven't tracked it any further than
that.

--marcs

-----Original Message-----
From: Mark S. Miller <markm@caplet.com>
To: Paul Snively <psnively@earthlink.net>; Marc Stiegler
<marcs@skyhunter.com>
Cc: e-lang@eros-os.org <e-lang@eros-os.org>
Date: Sunday, August 29, 1999 8:48 AM
Subject: Re: Fw: Building 0.8.4 From Source?


>At 10:26 PM 8/28/99 , Paul Snively wrote:
> >The subject line says it all. I've downloaded the source code, and it
seems
> >to rely on:
> >
> >a) A variant of "make" other than GNU make, and
>
>
>I'm using the "make" that comes with the Cygnus environment, which I
believe
>is supposed to be exactly GNU make, and compatible with GNU make on other
>platforms.  I'm running on Win98, btw.
>
> >b) Symantec's Visual Cafe compiler etc.
>
>Oops, my mistake.  In e/src/jsrc/Makefile you should change the line
>
>         COMPILE=$(WCOMPILE)
>to
>         COMPILE=$(JCOMPILE)
>
>the first setting does invoke the Symantec compiler, but the second invokes
>the Javasoft compiler (or any other with a compatible command line).
Please
>let us know how well that works under Linux.
>
>Any Java IDE should be able to suck in the entire directory tree rooted in
>e/src/jsrc and compile it.  I wouldn't be surprised if that's how most
>people build E.
>
> >Has anyone successfully built 0.8.4 under Linux-GNU (e.g. Red Hat 6.0)
> >using Blackdown's JDK 1.1.7, and if so, how?
>
>MarcS?  You've been building & running under Linux, what's the deal?
>
>
>         Cheers,
>         --MarkM
>