Installing java from another platform

Hi,

I have FreeBSD 8.1 on i386 platform. I am trying to download the latest version of Sun's JRE available on Linux x86 and Linux x64 (which are jre-7u1-linux-i586.tar.gz and jre-7u1-linux-x64.tar.gz)

Question is will java work on my FreeBSD 8.1 even though I am porting a Linux based JRE?
If this will work fine then from which Linux base should I download from?

Hope this makes sense and really looking forward to your kind reply.


Many Thanks,
Waqa
 
Thanks SirDice,

But this the error am getting will trying to do port installation.

Code:
===>  linux-sun-jre-1.6.0.24 You must manually fetch the JRE self-extracting file for the Linux platform (jre-6u24-linux-i586.bin) from
 [url]http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javase/downloads/index.html[/url], place it in /usr/ports/distfiles and then run make again.
*** Error code 1
 
Tingo, thanks for the sarcasm. Do I run 'make' on the same directory /usr/ports/distfiles?
 
Thanks wblock@,

Openjdk is easily ported using ports. Thanks again for the work around...
"In the end...something must Work"

Cheers mate!
 
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