Jikes for RISC OS version 1.18, release 1.00
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1st April 2003

See the Jikes for RISC OS homepage:

  http://www.chocky.org/java/jikes/

Simple example:

You have a file Hello/java you want to compile, type

  jikes Hello.java

and you should get Hello/class produced. To enable throwback errors
add -throwback to the command line:

  jikes -throwback Hello.java

Note that the current port of jikes expects filenames in unix format
with a .java extension. This may change in a future release.

If you have any comments or bugs to report with this release of jikes
please let us know (jikes@illudium.org.uk)

If you're looking for a JVM to let you run the classes you've compiled
using jikes, a very early port of kaffe is now available as part of the
Unix Porting Project:

  http://www.chocky.org/unix/

It may also be worth getting the kaffe port if you would like a more
up-to-date version of the Java class libraries than those supplied
with this port. jikes will use the kaffe class libraries by default
if kaffe has previously been run.

Note: the class file version jikes produces by default is the 1.2 version
which will cause warnings if run in kaffe. To produce 1.1 class files,
simply add -source 1.1 to your compilation command line.

If you wanted to try another compiler, guavac is a more tested, but
unmaintained compiler and a port is available at:

  http://www.chocky.org/java/guavac/

To-do list:

 - Tidy up of Throwback errors
 - A Wimp frontend
 - Check the handling of RISC OS filenames
 - Integration into the main Jikes source tree
 - Documentation

Original RISC OS port by Peter Naulls
Maintained by David Marston & André Schaefer

David Marston (jikes@illudium.org.uk)
André Schaefer (sf@bonn.iz-soz.de)
Peter Naulls (unix@chocky.org)