A few days ago, I wrote here about how the PhoneME JavaVM can be built with and integrated into OpenWrt, the Linux distribution optimized for WiFi routers or any device that connects over Wifi. However, even with a powerful Java runtime environment available on the target hardware platform, we still need to develop and simulate/test on a development workstation, which may very well be a Mac.
Developing for the PhoneME JavaVM becomes much easier and more fun, if you have the same VM available on your development platform; so here is what I did to get the PhoneME VM build for OS X 10.5 (Intel).