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ecj and ikvm
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| 1/6/2005 |
A goal of mine for a while has been to integrate a Java compiler with
ikvm to provide a direct Java-source-to-.NET compiler. I haven't
achieved that goal yet, but I have taken a baby-step in that direction
and successfully compiled the Eclipse Java compiler, ecj, to run under
ikvm. The remaining issues are the big ones: detect classes in .NET
dlls so that the Java code can refer to them, and pass the result
through the ikvm compiler to get a .NET executable or dll as output.
These steps are still some way in the future if I manage them at all.
Just being able to run ecj under IKVM is a significant step, though, so
I thought I'd post the instructions here in case anyone wants to try it.
(These instructions haven't been tested in exactly this form; I went
down a bunch of dead ends in between the steps and had some of the file
locations different. Hopefully I didn't screw up the process of putting
the steps into a logical order for these instructions. If I did, sorry.)
1) Make a working folder:
mkdir ecj
cd ecj
2) Check out the sources:
cvs -z3 -d:pserver:anonymous@dev.eclipse.org:/home/eclipse co org.eclipse.jdt.core
3) There are some screwy dependencies from the "compiler" module to the
"model" module which in turn pull in a bunch of files from somewhere
outside core. We can fix these by putting them in a separate directory
and trimming them down to remove the unsatisfiable dependencies. "Util.java"
is a trimmed down version of the copy in
model\org\eclipse\jdt\internal\core\util with only the methods that
Signature.java depends on. On linux obviously replace \ with /, and use
mkdir -p to create parent directories in one shot.
mkdir modelhack\org\eclipse\jdt\core
mkdir modelhack\org\eclipse\jdt\internal\core\util
copy org.eclipse.jdt.core\model\org\eclipse\jdt\core\Signature.java modelhack\org\eclipse\jdt\core
copy [...path\to\]Util.java modelhack\org\eclipse\jdt\internal\core\util
4) Get a list of all the files in the compiler, batch and modelhack folders with a .java extension
5) Make a build folder and copy all the .properties and .rsc files from the compiler, batch and model folders into it.
On Windows, the easiest way to do steps 4 and 5 together was to use a little perl script:
cd org.eclipse.jdt.core
perl [...path\to\]ecjfiles.pl >..\files.lst
On Linux these steps can be done straight in the shell (UNTESTED!):
cd org.eclipse.jdt.core
find ../modelhack -name *.java >../files.lst
find compiler -name *.java >>../files.lst
find batch -name *.java >>../files.lst
mkdir ../build
(cd compiler; tar c `find . -name *.properties -o -name *.rsc`) | (cd ../build; tar x)
(cd batch; tar c `find . -name *.properties -o -name *.rsc`) | (cd ../build; tar x)
(cd model; tar c `find . -name *.properties -o -name *.rsc`) | (cd ../build; tar x)
6) Compile everything (replace jikes with your java compiler of choice):
jikes -classpath "..\build;..\modelhack;compiler;batch;[...path\to\]rt.jar" -d ..\build @..\files.lst -Xstdout
7) Test it.
a) Can you get a usage message?
cd ..
java -cp build org.eclipse.jdt.internal.compiler.batch.Main
b) Can you compile a simple Java file using 1.5 features?
java -cp build org.eclipse.jdt.internal.compiler.batch.Main -verbose -1.5 Test.java
java -cp . Test
8) Compile it to a .NET exe:
ikvmc -target:exe -out:ecj.exe -main:org.eclipse.jdt.internal.compiler.batch.Main -recurse:build
copy [...path\to\]ikvm\bin\*.dll .
Try for another usage message:
ecj
9) Get it an rt.jar:
ikvmstub IKVM.GNU.Classpath.dll
(ignore the warning if there is one)
ren IKVM.GNU.Classpath.jar rt.jar
10) Compile a test program:
ecj -cp rt.jar -verbose -1.5 Test.java
java -cp . Test
Note that my test program used 1.5 language features but none of the
generic aspects of the class library; if it had, the ikvmstub-generated
rt.jar wouldn't have been enough and you'd have to point it to Sun's
libraries (or a build of the Classpath generics branch if you have one).
Note too that ikvm (as of the snapshot I have) can't run the resulting
Test.class because it refuses the 1.5 class format version.
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