static linking

Wed Dec 6 07:54:00 GMT 2000

Anthony Green wrote:
> Jeff wrote:
> > 2) classes loaded dynamically (via Class.forName) don't get linked
> >
> > I don't see any good solution. I got around it by linking the following
> dummy
> > class into my executable, but YMMV:
>> Hmm.. won't the class loader rummage around in appropriately named shared
> libraries? What happens when you make a symlink from libgcj.so to gnu-gcj.so?

Interesting. It might have worked, had gnu-gcj.so been available, but I
suspect there's a bootstrap problem also because VMClassLoader needs the
URL handlers during initialization.
The exact failure was inifite recursion in VMClassLoader.init until
stack was exhausted. Explicitly linking gcj.protocol.file.Handler
solved it.
Jeff