gcj and awt

Thu Apr 19 12:28:00 GMT 2001

On 2001年4月19日, John Peterson wrote:
> And since I'm just catching up with gcj in general, I assume
> that gcj compiles down to a real stand-alone executable,
> i.e. no extra jre/jvm/dll garbage!?

It isn't normally desirable to compile a single standalone
.exe for any language with a complex runtime. The executables would be
excessively large.
In the case of win32 and gcj, the garbage collector will
probably not work correctly unless it is a DLL, since it hooks into
DllMain().
Jeff