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JAVA on i.MX

Sun Microsystems has pre-built versions of Java Virtual Machine for ARM Processors. It's possible to download them at: http://java.sun.com/javase/downloads/embedded.jsp

All pre-built software mentioned on site above are distributed as evaluation software. For more information about use and license, please contact Sun Microsystems

i.MX31 PDK will be used as an example to describe installation, compilation and execution procedures. It can be easily done for other i.MX platforms

Installing Sun Java on i.MX

For i.MX31, i.MX35, download the following version:

UsageHeadfulBinary Version
Non-Graphical ApplicationsARMv6 Linux - Headless (Early Access)EABI, glibc 2.5, Hard Float (VFP), Little Endian
Graphical ApplicationsARMv6 Linux - Headful (Early Access)EABI, glibc 2.5, Hard Float (VFP), Little Endian

For i.MX21, i.MX25, i.MX27, download the following version:

UsageHeadfulBinary Version
Non-Graphical ApplicationsARMv5 Linux - Headless (Early Access)EABI, glibc 2.5, Soft Float, Little Endian
Graphical ApplicationsARMv5 Linux - Headful (Early Access)EABI, glibc 2.5, Soft Float, Little Endian

On following example, a graphical application will be compiled, the headful version will be used.

This example uses X11 as graphical server. On LTIB, select X11 and also the package libXtst and libXi.

Extract the downloaded package (in this case "ejre-1_6_0_10-ea-b39-linux-armv6-vfp-eabi-min-eval-30_jul_2009.tar.gz")

tar xzvf ejre-1_6_0_10-ea-b39-linux-armv6-vfp-eabi-min-eval-30_jul_2009.tar.gz 

Create a new folder on <LTIB Directory>/rootfs/ called ejre1.6.0_10

cd rootfs sudo mkdir ejre1.6.0_10 

Copy all files and folders located inside the extracted package to <LTIB Directory>/rootfs/ejre1.6.0_10/

cd rootfs/ejre1.6.0_10 
cp -a ../../ejre1.6.0_10/* .

Include the bin folder to the PATH:

export PATH=$PATH:/ejre1.6.0_10/bin/ 

In this example the X11 will be used as graphical server. Add the display environment variable:

export DISPLAY=:0 

Running a simple program

Compiling and testing on Host PC

Let's first compile and test a simple program on Host Machine (PC).

Create a file called Example1.java and add the following code:

import java.awt.*;
  
public class Example1 extends java.applet.Applet 
{
   public void init() 
   { 
        add(new Button("One")); 
        add(new Button("Two")); 
   }  

   public Dimension preferredSize() 
   { 
        return new Dimension(480, 640); 
   }  
   
   public static void main(String [] args) 
   { 
        Frame f = new Frame("Example 1");  

        Example1 ex = new Example1();  

        ex.init();  

        f.add("Center", ex);  
        
        f.pack(); 
        f.show(); 
   } 
} 

On terminal, compile the source code using ecj:

$ ecj Example1.java 

ecj Java Compiler is needed to compile this example. To install ecj on Debian based OS, install the packages: sudo apt-get install ecj ecj-gcj libecj-java libecj-java-gcj

Now it's possible to test the compiled program. Just type on host:

$ java Example1 

The following window will be shown:

240px-Java1_pc.png

Running on i.MX

Copy the file Example1.class to <LTIB Directory>/rootfs/home

cp Example1.class rootfs/home 

On i.MX Linux, start Xfbdev in background:

$ Xfbdev & 

Run Example1:

$ java Example1 

The following screen will be shown on LCD:

240px-Java1_pdk31.png



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Hi,

I'm using i.MX6Q Sabrelite and freescale linux. I installed the standard edition of java and could compile and execute all programs but the ones that use java.awt. When I tried executing the above Example1.java, I got a linker error. Please find the error below.

Exception in thread "main" java.lang.UnsatisfiedLinkError: /usr/sejdk7/jdk1.7.0_

10/jre/lib/arm/xawt/libmawt.so: libXtst.so.6: cannot open shared object file: No

such file or directory

        at java.lang.ClassLoader$NativeLibrary.load(Native Method)

        at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadLibrary1(ClassLoader.java:1939)

        at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadLibrary0(ClassLoader.java:1864)

        at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadLibrary(ClassLoader.java:1825)

        at java.lang.Runtime.load0(Runtime.java:792)

        at java.lang.System.load(System.java:1059)

        at java.lang.ClassLoader$NativeLibrary.load(Native Method)

        at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadLibrary1(ClassLoader.java:1939)

        at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadLibrary0(ClassLoader.java:1864)

        at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadLibrary(ClassLoader.java:1846)

        at java.lang.Runtime.loadLibrary0(Runtime.java:845)

        at java.lang.System.loadLibrary(System.java:1084)

        at sun.security.action.LoadLibraryAction.run(LoadLibraryAction.java:67)

        at sun.security.action.LoadLibraryAction.run(LoadLibraryAction.java:47)

        at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)

        at java.awt.Toolkit.loadLibraries(Toolkit.java:1648)

        at java.awt.Toolkit.<clinit>(Toolkit.java:1670)

        at java.awt.Component.<clinit>(Component.java:595)

Any help in resolving this error is very much appreciated. Thanks in advance,

Iype

Has this issue been resolved?  The Document from the i.MX Community entitled, "All Boards Java", has a hyperlink to http://www.imxdev.org/wiki/images/9/91/Libxtst_libxi_specs.tar.gz.  Clicking on this link just reloads the i.MX community page.

Can the community please update the link?  We are evaluating the i.MX 6 platform, and, without Java, we will have to consider another platform.

Thanks,

Regards,

Phil Kahler

The Boeing Co.

Everett, WA.

In fact, all requests to www.imxdev.org, no matter the path, redirects to the community. Deactivated user, any idea about this tarball?

Unfortunately we lost some files in the migration from imxdev.org - sorry for the inconvenience.  We'll keep this document as being useful as an example for loading and running the JVM.

Hello, can anybody help me? Is there something new about http://www.imxdev.org/wiki/images/9/91/Libxtst_libxi_specs.tar.gz, and how can I get this files?

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