Porting to Windows CE

Mon Jul 30 15:07:00 GMT 2001

We've got some Java code that compiles with gcj on linux, but we want to
run this code on a variety of mobile devices, so porting gcj to these
devices would be really useful to us. We don't really have the resources
to do this ourselves but would like to help make this happen.
A breakdown of what we need is as follows:
1. We need gcc support for WindowsCE (MIPS and ARM). There was some work
on this but it doesn't seem to be complete.
2. We need libgcj ports to Windows CE and Symbian EPOC.
If anyone has ideas on how difficult this would be, we would be
interested in hearing them. 
I'd like to get some suggestions on what is the best way to make this
happen, while helping the free software community rather than exploiting
it. We could pay someone to do this (anyone interested?), but there may
be better options such as rewarding an existing contributor that was
willing to put the effort in to work on what we need, or making a
donation to the FSF, or providing hardware for existing
developers/special projects etc. Anyone got any good ideas?
Another option is we could put some effort into packaging some of our
java code up and releasing it as free software, kind of a time swap,
someone helps us with an area we are not good at (porting C code), and
we help out by putting time into increasing the pool of free code in an
area we are good at. I know people will be thinking we should be doing
this anyway, but as an early stage startup we only have limited
resources, this kind of project is way down the priority list, we will
release it one day, just when we get the time. Something like this could
make us prioritize that task. The code I'm thinking of is general
purpose toolkit code that we have built up over the last three years or
so on a number of projects. Or we could take requests for some java code
that needs written.
Jason
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Jason Swain
Chief Executive Officer
Parochus Software Ltd - www.parochus.com