OpenJDK 6 for BSD ( which now includes the Soylatte patches) will run
on 10.4 or 10.5 but on Intel machines only. Getting it to run on PPC
would require implementation of a lot of PPC assembly code for the
hotspot libraries. However, there's a cool project LLVM (http://
llvm.org/) that does for assembly what VMs did for byte code, and
when this gets integrated into OpenJDK, building for PPC machines
will be pretty easy.
So at the moment, I'd say that the Apple Java 5 VM is your best bet
to target against.
Rob Ross, Lead Software Engineer
E! Networks
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On Aug 26, 2008, at 6:38 PM, Scott Palmer wrote:
Well I did say "most" :-) I think ~80% counts as most.
Another option might be OpenJDK... (soy-latte) I'm not sure what
it's minimum system requirements are - but it could theoretically
allow Java 6/7 to run on older versions of OS X.
Scott
On 26-Aug-08, at 9:19 PM, Hasan Edain wrote:
I have tried Retroweaver, so far without sucess. I know from my
web statistics that something over 20% of my downloads don't meet
my OS recomendations for some games we have produced. That is a
very bitter pill on my OS of choice.
Hasan Edain
Co-Founder NPC Unlimited.com
206-335-1143
On Aug 26, 2008, at 6:10 PM, Scott Palmer
<email@hidden> wrote:
Stick with Java 5... most Macs will have it.
Or, try something like retro-weaver to make Java 1.4 compatible
classes from your Java 5 code. Java 1.3 is far too ancient to
bother with - even if your goal is to target more Macs.
Regards,
Scott
On 26-Aug-08, at 9:05 PM, Hasan Edain wrote:
Long time lurked steping out to ask a question.
My partner and I have spent nearly 5 years developing a
framework to deliver sprite based 2d games in Java.
Along. The way we seem to have made a serious technology
mistake. We moved to JDK 1.5 features (especially enums). Now we
seem to be very limited in terms of where the games made in this
platform can be deployed in terms of the Mac platform.
This is especially distressing in terms of comparing our ability
to deliver on windows and Linux where we have reasonable
strategies to deliver to OS's over a decade old.
Does anyone have sugestions that don't involve regressing our
entire codebase to JDK 1.3?
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