Re: [Swarm-Support] pretest 9 / Sun JDK

[Pietro Terna]

        

Hi
Marcus.

        

I've
installed pretest 9, but I've still a lot of problems.

        

Cygwin is
uptodate.

        

ATB,
Pietro

--- with gcj

address@hidden ~/swarmApps/jheatbugs-2001-03-28
$ LTDL_LIBRARY_PATH=/Swarm-2.2/lib

address@hidden ~/swarmApps/jheatbugs-2001-03-28
$ CLASSPATH=/Swarm-2.2/share/swarm/swarm.jar gcj -O2 -g 
--main=StartHeatbugs -L
/Swarm-2.2/lib *.class /Swarm-2.2/lib/gcj_{swarm,gnubytecode}.o 
-o jheatbugs
gcj: /Swarm-2.2/lib/gcj_swarm.o: No such file or directory
gcj: /Swarm-2.2/lib/gcj_gnubytecode.o: No such file or 
directory

address@hidden ~/swarmApps/jheatbugs-2001-03-28
$ jheatbugs
Exception caught: javaswarm: file not found
Exception in thread "main" java.lang.UnsatisfiedLinkError:
createBegin
   <<No stacktrace available>>

--- with jdk

address@hidden ~/swarmApps/jheatbugs-2001-03-28
$ jdkcswarm *.java

address@hidden ~/swarmApps/jheatbugs-2001-03-28
$ jdkswarm StartHeatbugs
BLT support file `bltGraph.tcl' not found
If the directory `/Swarm-2.2/share/blt2.4' not the intended location for
the BLT support files,
please adjust BLT_LIBRARY to the right place.

--- in plain way

address@hidden ~/swarmApps/jheatbugs-2001-03-28
$ javaswarm StartHeatbugs
BLT support file `bltGraph.tcl' not found
If the directory `/Swarm-2.2/share/blt2.4' not the intended location for
the BLT support files,
please adjust BLT_LIBRARY to the right place.

--- using Obj C

address@hidden ~/swarmApps/swarmapps-2.1.1/heatbugs
$ make
/bin/sh.exe /Swarm-2.2/bin/libtool-swarm --mode link gcc -g -O2
-L/Swarm-2.2/lib
 -rpath /Swarm-2.2/lib  -o heatbugs.exe Heatbug.o HeatSpace.o
main.o HeatbugMode
lSwarm.o HeatbugObserverSwarm.o HeatbugBatchSwarm.o  -lswarm
gcc -g -O2 -o heatbugs.exe Heatbug.o HeatSpace.o main.o
HeatbugModelSwarm.o Heat
bugObserverSwarm.o HeatbugBatchSwarm.o  -L/Swarm-2.2/lib
/Swarm-2.2/lib/libswarm
.dll.a -L/build/swarm-nobounds/src/space
-L/build/swarm-nobounds/src/analysis -L
/build/swarm-nobounds/src/simtoolsgui
-L/build/swarm-nobounds/src/simtools -L/bu
ild/swarm-nobounds/src/random -L/build/swarm-nobounds/src/tkobjc
-L/build/swarm-
nobounds/src/tclobjc -L/build/swarm-nobounds/src/objectbase
-L/build/swarm-nobou
nds/src/activity -L/build/swarm-nobounds/src/defobj
-L/build/swarm-nobounds/src/
collections -L/build/swarm-nobounds/src/misc
-L/build/swarm-nobounds/libobjc -L/
usr/lib /Swarm-2.2/lib/libswarmobjc.dll.a -lBLT24 -ltk84 -ltcl84 -lXpm
-lpng -lz
 -luser32 -lgdi32 -L/build/swarm-nobounds/avcall -Wl,--rpath
-Wl,/Swarm-2.2/lib
-Wl,--rpath -Wl,/Swarm-2.2/lib
/usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lBLT24
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
make: *** [heatbugs.exe] Error 1

---

At 10.08 03/09/2003 -0600, you wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Swarm is working with Sun JDK again.
>
> The problem was with Tcl.  Tcl does a stack probe to ensure that
> recursive calls can be completed, but this stack probe causes problems in
> the JVM environment.  So I disabled the probe, and put a variant Tcl
> DLL in
> /Swarm-2.2/bin to override the Cygwin version. 
> The previous problem of Cygwin laying down shared memory space for its
> bookkeeping no longer causes problems with Sun JDK 1.4.2.  So,
> rather than adding a feature to Cygwin to make it the virtual memory
> address of that area configurable, or changing the value, I will simply
> say that if you want to use Swarm and Java under Windows, use the latest
> version of Sun JDK (1.4.2).  In my limited testing, 1.4.2 and
> pretest 9 are working reliabily together.
>
> The new pretest at
> ftp://ftp.santafe.edu/pub/swarm/binaries/w32/latest/Swarm-2.2-pretest-9.tar.gz.
>
> Before using this pretest, run the Cygwin setup program and update your
> Cygwin DLL and anything else the installer suggests.  You don't need
> `experimental' versions of the Cygwin stuff or anything like that. 
> If you had a Cygwin install that worked with earlier Swarm pretest (e.g.
> you were using it for Objective C only), simply have it grab the standard
> updates.  Cygwin developers are doing a mass upgrade of packages
> lately to accomodate new 64 bit file access features in the Cygwin. 
> I realize that this isn't yet advertised on the Cygwin website, but it's
> true.
>
> Finally, this pretest doesn't have a working Kaffe (standalone free Java
> JVM).  I will probably withdraw Kaffe support from the next release
> because 1) it doesn't work with Cygwin (and I don't have time to fix it),
> and 2) most Java folks find Kaffe weird anyway and prefer to use
> commercial development tools.    For folks that want
> freely redistributable Java support, there will be gcj.  I noticed
> that gcj broke with my last round of Cygwin/GCC upgrades, but it probably
> just requires a rebuild of libgcj (something that takes about all
> day).  So, if you want GCJ support use pretest 8.  If you want
> Sun JDK support, use pretest 9.  If you want both, lend a
> hand.  :-)
>
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