ClasspathCompatiblePrograms - GNU Classpath Mediation Wiki

This page lists which programs are known to work well with the various compiler and runtimes based on GNU Classpath, and which ones are known to have problems. It is really useful to have a list of benchmarks for both testing, regression, and paper-writing purposes. Only list Free Software programs. Provide an URL to the source (archive), how to compile them and what tricks/workarounds were used so other developers can use these programs for regression and smoke testing new versions.

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Programs known to work well
Programs with known problems
1. Eclipse
2. BeanShell
Other overviews

Programs known to work well

Apache Ant

Description: Ant is a Java-based build tool.
Version: 1.6.2
Source archive: http://apache.engram.de/apache.org/ant/source/apache-ant-1.6.2-src.tar.bz2
Tested against: JamVM 1.3.0+GNU Classpath 0.14
Compilation instructions: unknown
Workarounds needed: unknown

Run/Test with:

Unfortunately the known wrapper scripts will not work because they are tied to proprietary Java. The following command line runs Ant with JamVM and uses GCJ as the default compiler:

jamvm -classpath /usr/share/ant-core/lib/ant-launcher.jar
      -Dant.home=/usr/share/ant-core -Dbuild.compiler=gcj
      org.apache.tools.ant.launch.Launcher

When using the Jikes compiler you have to explicitly add GNU Classpath's glibj.zip (or comparable archive/directory) to the classpath using the special property jikes.class.path:

jamvm -classpath /usr/share/ant-core/lib/ant-launcher.jar
      -Dant.home=/usr/share/ant-core -Dbuild.compiler=jikes
      -Djikes.class.path=/usr/share/classpath/glibj.zip
      org.apache.tools.ant.launch.Launcher

Checkstyle

Description: Checkstyle is a development tool to help programmers write Java code that adheres to a coding standard.
Version: 4.1
Source archive: http://checkstyle.sourceforge.net/index.html
Tested against: JamVM 1.4.1, GNU Classpath CVS (19-Dec-2005)
Compilation instructions: Used prebuilt jar file
Workarounds needed: None.
Run/Test with: I followed the commandline instructions given on the Checkstyle web page, and ran some checks for JFreeChart (see checkstyle/style.xml in the JFreeChart distribution for the rules used).
(Test) results: Output matched that produced using Sun's JDK, apart from the ordering of a few items.

JUnit

Description: A CPL unit testing framework (Note: Freenet contains a GPL-compatible implementation).
Version: unknown
Source archive: http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/junit/
Tested against: JamVM 1.3.3/GNU Classpath 0.18+CVS/unknown compiler
Workarounds needed: None.
Run/Test with: unknown
(Test) results: unknown

GLJava

Description: JNI Binding to OpenGL 1.1
Version: no official release yet (bundled with SDLJava)
Source archive: http://gljava.sourceforge.net
Tested against: JamVM 1.2.5, GCJ4.0 (native+interpreted)
Compilation instructions: see source archive
Workarounds needed: none
Run/Test with: unknown
(Test) results: unknown

PircBot

Description: The most popular Java IRC API
Version: 1.1.4
Source archive: http://www.jibble.org/files/pircbot-1.4.4.zip
Tested against: GNU Classpath 0.14
Compilation instructions: See the source archive.
Workarounds needed: none
Run/Test with: unkown
(Test) results: unknown

SableCC

Description: An LGPL compiler compiler for LALR(1) grammars
Version: unknown
Source archive: http://sablecc.org/downloads.html
Tested against: many/unknown
Compilation instructions: unknown
Workarounds needed: Probably none needed
Run/Test with: unknown
(Test) results: unknown

SDLJava

Description: JNI Binding to SDL
Version: 0.91
Source archive: http://sdljava.sourceforge.net
Tested against: JamVM 1.2.5, GCJ4.0 (native+interpreted)
Compilation instructions: see source archive
Workarounds needed: none
Run/Test with: unknown
(Test) results: unknown

Soot

Description: An LGPL Java bytecode compiler framework, this is a large program.
Version: unknown
Source archive: http://www.sable.mcgill.ca/soot/
Tested against: many/unknown
Compilation instructions: unkown
Workarounds needed: there may be problems with recent versions, needs verification
Run/Test with: unknown
(Test) results: unknown

Programs with known problems

Eclipse

Description: Popular and versatile IDE
Version: 3.1m5
Source archive: http://www.eclipse.org
Tested against: JamVM 1.2.5/GNU Classpath, GCC4.0 (20050312 snapshot)
Compilation instructions: unknown
Workarounds needed:
- If you are using GCJ run eclipse with the following command:
```
./eclipse -consoleLog -debug -vm jamvm -vmargs -Dosgi.locking=none
```
  For JamVM use:
```
PATH=.:${PATH} ./eclipse -consoleLog -debug -vm jamvm -vmargs -Dosgi.locking=none -mx256m
```
  (It prevents a problem where startup.jar can not be found and a OutOfMemoryError is thrown.)
  Note: On Gentoo GNU/Linux the executable will be eclipse-<TK> where <TK> is gtk or motif.
Run/Test with: See above/Unknown
(Test) results: unknown.

BeanShell

Description: Console-based interpreter mode (bsh.Interpreter) works fine.
Version: 2.0b2
Source archive: http://beanshell.org/bsh-2.0b2-src.jar
Tested against: GNU Classpath 0.12/JamVM 1.2.1/SableVM 1.0.8/Unknown compiler, GCJ4 (native+interpreted)
Workarounds needed: Avoid starting with bsh.Console and do not use the class bsh.util.JConsole. Rely on bsh.Interpreter and bsh.util.AWTConsole instead.
Run/Test with: unknown
(Test) results: unknown

Other overviews

Some other overviews of free programs made to work with GNU Classpath based development environments.