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| // General notes |
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| VMKit is the composition of three libraries: |
| 1) MVM: mostly a garbage collector |
| 2) J3: a Java Virtual Machine implemented with MVM and LLVM |
| 3) N3: a CLI implementation with MVM and LLVM |
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| J3 and N3 use GCC's unwinding library (libgcc_s.so). |
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| These are the options you should pass to the ./configure script |
| --with-llvmsrc: the source directory of LLVM |
| --with-llvmobj: the object directory of LLVM |
| --with-gnu-classpath-libs: GNU classpath libraries |
| --with-gnu-classpath-glibj: GNU classpath glibj.zip |
| --with-pnet-local-prefix: the local build of PNET |
| --with-pnetlib: PNET's mscorlib.dll |
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| There's also [experimental]: |
| --with-gc: user either boehm or single-mmap |
| --with-mono: Mono's mscorlib.dll |
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| Running make on the root tree will produce the following "tools": |
| 1) Debug|Release/bin/j3: running the J3 like any other JVM. |
| 2) Debug|Release/bin/n3-pnetlib: running N3 like CLR. |
| 2) Debug|Release/bin/vmkit: shell-like vm launcher. |
| 2) Debug|Release/bin/vmjc: ahead of time compiler for .class files. |
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| J3 and N3 have their own README notes. |
