gcj-mingw is ready for inclusion in gcc 3.1

Sat Mar 9 21:39:00 GMT 2002

Anthony Green <green@redhat.com> writes:
> That's amazing progress considering how recent this note was...
> http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/java/2001-10/msg00213.html

Ah, memories =)
Yeah, I'm really happy that it worked out how I had hoped. If I
haven't said it before, GCJ saved XWT from extinction. If it hadn't
been for GCJ, I would have abandoned XWT when Microsoft dropped the
JVM from WinXP. Asking people to download the Java Plugin is a huge
inconvenience.
> If I can find the time, I'd like to try to get 'make check' working
> under Linux with wine.

Yeah, I tried that. Unfortunately even very simple gcj-compiled
programs fail under wine (I was using the wine out of Debian's
unstable; it should be pretty up to date).
I've been developing by running win98 with cygwin/sshd inside vmware,
and ssh'ing into the virtualized machine to run binaries. Unless
somebody can get it working under wine, I'd like to add a
configuration option --with-testing-host which is the hostname of a
cygwin machine running sshd; 'make check' can then build binaries, scp
them to that machine and run them to perform tests.
> IIRC, we've got libgcj.a, but no libgcj.dll. What needs to be done
> to get that working?

I don't know -- I've sort of avoided it since my priorities are
dictated by "do what XWT needs first" (sad but true). I don't know
much about how DLL's work.
I think that would be a great place for somebody else to start if we
get any other people interested in working on mingw-gcj, since it's a
very low priority for me, and largely orthogonal to what I'll be
working on in the future (performance, stability, and stack traces).
I know that at least two people have posted to the list asking to help
out, but that was back before I had a worthwhile codebase for others
to work from.
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