JDK on AMD64?

[Adriaan de Groot]

On Mon, 22 Mar 2004, Gabriel Ambuehl wrote:
> building it from scratch. However, considering that AMD64 is binary
> compatible to IA32, it might be possible to compile the JDK on a
> regular IA32 machine and use it to bootstrap the AMD64 version but so
> far, I'm having trouble finding the compat module that would allow
> such binaries to actually run (they can't find their libs).

Hi Gabriel,

Peter just posted a "nasty hack" script to build IA32 compat libs on amd64
on this list. Check the archives. That might allow you to use the IA32 JDK
and go from there.