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>>>>>    H T T P : / / D E V E L . S A B L E V M . O R G    <<<<<

WARNING: THIS IS MAINLY FOR *DEVELOPMENT* VERSIONS AND SNAPSHOTS

NEWS and CHANGES:
 * SableVM Classpath is based on GNU Classpath 0.08 + further CVS changes ! ! !
 * GTK-peers (AWT implementation) are starting to work even more
 * Swing(!) is starting to work somewhat!
 * Includes a few fairly small but important bugfixes.
 * SableVM Classpath now "simply builds" like any other software

WHAT WE WANT YOU TO DO WITH THIS RELEASE:
 * Compile & try!
 * Report problems to the mailing list
 * Run your favourite apps, tests and report experiences
 * Try to help us fixing the problems

GETTING CODE:
 * If you're reading this text from a source tar archive, you may skip this part.
 * You can always checkout code from Subversion repository, ex. to get "trunk"
   versions of SableVM and SableVM Classpath use:
	svn co svn://svn.sablevm.org/sablevm/trunk sablevm
	svn co svn://svn.sablevm.org/sablevm-classpath/trunk sablevm-classpath
 * You can grab development snapshot from http://devel.sablevm.org/shot ex.
   sablevm-trunk*.tar.gz sablevm-classpath-trunk*.tar.gz for "trunk"
   versions of SableVM and SableVM Classpath
   NOTE: Subversion is not required to compile snapshots of Subversion repository.

INSTALLATION OF SABLEVM-CLASSPATH:
 * requirements
   - automake version 1.6 or 1.7 (NOT 1.4)
   - libtool 1.4 or 1.5
   - autoconf  (min. ver. 2.59!)
   - java compiler  (ex. jikes)
   - libgtk2.0-dev  (ver. 2.2.x)
   - libart-2.0-dev (ver. 2.2.x)
   - pkg-config (ex. ver. 0.15)
   (note: the package names above are for Debian; they may differ in your
   distribution).
 * build procedure:
	[ ./autogen.sh ] (only needed for SVN version, NOT for stable/devel releases)
	./configure [ --prefix=/special/location/you/want ]
	make
	make install

INSTALLATION OF SABLEVM:
 * requirements
   - libffi2-dev
   - libtool
   - libltdl3-dev
   - libpopt-dev
   - zlib
 * build procedure:
	[ ./autogen.sh ] (only needed for SVN version, NOT for stable/devel releases)
	./configure [ --prefix=/special/location/you/want ]
	make
	make install

FURTHER INFORMATIONS AND CONTACT:
 * See our website for informations http://www.sablevm.org
 * See our development site http://devel.sablevm.org
 * See our mailing lists http://devel.sablevm.org/wiki/MailingLists
 * Meet us on IRC in #sablevm channel in irc.sablevm.org (openprojects/debian)
