Native compilation article

Thu Jan 31 09:15:00 GMT 2002

Bryce McKinlay wrote:
>Unfortunatly gcj does not work under cygwin at this time due to a bug
>with its handling of case-insensitive filesystems. This affects
>Darwin/Mac OS X as well.

OK, that's a shame :-(
What is the exact problem ?
Is it just multiple files of the gcj/libjava source having the same name
but different case, or a bit more
tricky than that (such as the files created by gcc/gcj having this prob) ?
Is there any work underway to sort this out (or is it a nightmare to fix?)
It would be great to be able to use gcj under cygwin.
>Adam Megacz has ressurected the native-win32 support and has
>successfully cross-compiled to win32. You can check out his application
>at www.xwt.org. We're eagerly awaiting his patches ;-)

Yeah, sounds like he is making great progress there - I'll be trying it
out when I get back to the office (I'm out for a few days).
As an aside - I hope no-one out there thinks I have anything against GCJ.
On the contrary, I think it is great and I hope the article will encourage
people to check it out for themselves - the article *does* encourage people
to ignore the limited benchmarks and try it for themselves on their own
applications.
Thanks,
Martyn.