[LLVMdev] compiling java frontend

Chris Lattner clattner at apple.com
Thu Sep 17 16:22:48 PDT 2009


On Sep 17, 2009, at 4:17 PM, Andreas Saebjoernsen wrote:

> I am trying to compile the Java frontend in
>      https:/llvm.org/svn/llvm-project/java/trunk
> If there are another preferred Java frontend available, and it is  
> suited for translating Java bytecode to LLVM bytecode, I'd be happy  
> to use that frontend instead.

That is really old and out of date, I'm sure it doesn't work anymore.   
Check out http://vmkit.llvm.org/

-Chris

>
> thanks,
> Andreas
>
> On Thu, Sep 17, 2009 at 4:03 PM, Chris Lattner <clattner at apple.com>  
> wrote:
>
> On Sep 17, 2009, at 3:59 PM, Andreas Saebjoernsen wrote:
>
> I am looking for a way to translate Java bytecode to LLVM bytecode  
> and the LLVM Java frontend seem like a good match for initial  
> testing.  But after checking out the svn version of the Java  
> frontend I get the following error when running configure
>
>    configure: error: cannot find install-sh or install.sh in ../../ 
> autoconf ./../../autoconf
>
> This error persisted even after successfully regenerating configure  
> with the 'AutoRegen.sh' script in the 'java/trunk/autoconf'  
> subdirectory. Do you have any advice on how to configure and compile  
> the Java frontend?
>
> Which java frontend?
>
> -Chris
>

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