Re: Reducing size of sable vm for ipaqs

Rene Wagner <[email protected]> Tue, 10 May 2005 23:52:55 +0200
Newsgroups gmane.comp.java.vm.sablevm.general
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Tue, 2005-05-10 at 17:42, Vinod wrote:
> my sd card is of no use as linux does
> not recognize sd cards.

How did you determine that? All of the officially supported iPAQs have
working SD nowadays. (Depending on your iPAQ model you may need to load
the kernel modules and mount the card manually though.)

>  Is there anyway i can get
> sable vm running in my situation? are all the class
> libraries needed? all i intend to do is some java
> socket programming between my two ipaqs running on
> familiar linux v0.8.2.

Have a look at these for a few ideas:
http://classpath.wildebeest.org/dairy-man-di/index.php?p=16
http://www.informatik.uni-bremen.de/cgi-bin/cgiwrap/rwagner/pyblosxom.cgi/computers/freejava/6.html

>  Any alternate vm with a small
> size?

JamVM is a bit smaller than SableVM but both use GNU Classpath (although
the pristine version is a tiny bit smaller IIRC).

Rene