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Topic: x86 with glibc

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Guys I don't know where to start so any help will be greatly appreciated.
I have OpenWRT running on a x86 hardware, I'm using the image from this topic https://forum.openwrt.org/viewtopic.php?id=35887. The perfomance it's great and everything is working like a charm, ddns, multiwan, wifi 5ghz, but it would be great if I could to run a full java jre on it. I have tried jamvm, it's almost ok, but very limited.
The question is:
To install a full linux jre I need to compile the source with glibc instead of uclibc?
Is it possible? It was already been done?

Thanks in advance for any directions you may have to give.

- JamVM 2.0 should probably work with default build environment (uclibc). Acording to it's announce message it

supports OpenJDK 6, 7 and 8 (the latest)

- full JRE will probably never be supported because maintaining and tracking security updates seems to take a lot of work

- There is no glibc release of OpenWrt yet. Eglibc is inactive since thise year and atm there is no activity after the "merge" of eglibc with glibc.
- It should be possible.
- It is not being done (because JRE for normal OpenWrt routers is not possible because of space restrictions)


see other thread here : https://forum.openwrt.org/viewtopic.php?id=54849
for Java and some hints regarding JamVM

zloop wrote:

- JamVM 2.0 should probably work with default build environment (uclibc). Acording to it's announce message it

supports OpenJDK 6, 7 and 8 (the latest)

- full JRE will probably never be supported because maintaining and tracking security updates seems to take a lot of work

- There is no glibc release of OpenWrt yet. Eglibc is inactive since thise year and atm there is no activity after the "merge" of eglibc with glibc.
- It should be possible.
- It is not being done (because JRE for normal OpenWrt routers is not possible because of space restrictions)


see other thread here : https://forum.openwrt.org/viewtopic.php?id=54849
for Java and some hints regarding JamVM

Thanks zloop for your response.
I want to run some java applications under x86 hardware, so I won't have the router environment limitations. I'll do more research about jamvm and give another shot.

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