nathggns · January 29, 2015 20:25 · Jan 29, 2015
diff --git a/freebsd-java.md b/freebsd-java.md
@@ -0,0 +1,30 @@
+Before installing this JRE, you have to install the linux binary compatibility on FreeBSD, you can follow this documentation.
+Jave requires some information about the proc. You have to mount linprocfs, type:
+
+    kldload linprocfs
+    mount -t linprocfs linprocfs /compat/linux/proc
+
+and add this line to /etc/fstab:
+
+    linprocfs   /compat/linux/proc   linprocfs   rw   0  0
+
+
+The Sun/Oracle JRE has a dependency marked as forbidden and the installation will fail. Go to `/usr/ports/textproc/linux-f10-expat2.0.1/` and in the Makefile remove the line which starts with `FORBIDDEN=`.
+Next you have to manually get the linux tarball due to licence issue (like `jre-7u65-linux-i586.tar.gz`) from java official web site and copy the file to `/usr/ports/distfiles`. Then to install the JRE, go to `/usr/ports/java/linux-sun-jre17/` and run:
+
+    make install distclean
+
+Note: The previous version of this part, tested on FreeBSD 9.2 amd64, was explained like this: You may have to set `JRE_UPDATE_VERSION` variable in your Makefile to the actual number (e.g. 45 like in this example) and run `make install NO_CHECKSUM=1`.
+
+
+Try running `java -version`. You may end up with a message that it can not find libjli.so. One way to fix it is to add your java paths to the search explicitly. Make a symlink:
+
+    ln -s /usr/local/linux-sun-jre1.7.0/lib/i386 /compat/linux/usr/lib/java
+
+And in `/compat/linux/etc/ld.so.conf.d/java.conf` add:
+
+    /usr/lib/java
+    /usr/lib/java/jli
+
+Run /compat/linux/sbin/ldconfig.
+Now java -version should work.