Getting and installing the gnu.bytecode library

Getting pre-compiled classes

In the future we have to make available a separate jar of gnu.bytecode, but for now the easiest (if you don't mind the extra size) is to just use the latest kawa-versionjar from the Kawa ftp site ftp://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/kawa/, or from a mirror site.

Otherwise, grab the sources from SVN (see below) and just compile all the Java files with javac.

Getting the sources using SVN

The gnu/bytecode sources are managed using a Subversion (svn) repository. If you want the very latest version grab an svn client, and then check out the source using this command:

svn -q checkout svn://sourceware.org/svn/kawa/trunk/gnu/bytecode/ gnu/bytecode

If you're beyond a firewall or HTTP proxy, you can edit http-proxy-host and http-proxy-port in ~/.subversion/servers as described here,. and then do:

svn -q checkout http://sourceware.org/svn/kawa/trunk/gnu/bytecode/ gnu/bytecode

Once you have it checked out, you can keep it up-to-date with svn update.

You can also browse the svn archive via viewvc.