Problems using the GCJ interpreter

Thu Feb 20 07:46:00 GMT 2003

> As Tom pointed out, when you directly reference classes in 
> your code, they are statically resolved and without libswt.a, 
> you get the errors you see. 

I had two motivations for using the GCJ interpreter: to save compilation
time by not compiling swt.jar(I would have used GCJ 3.3 and Mohans compiled
SWT, but I'm one patch short, the property parsing problem you cornered)
and to check out what the deployment size was.
The GIJ test I posted earlier indicates that there is some sort of JNI 
issue(i.e. swt does not launch properly). 
However, I did some numbers on HelloSWT.exe from Mohan and here is what I got:
- gij.exe + class files and swt.jar -> 1.5MB zipped
- one big static HelloSWT.exe -> 1.0MB zipped
To get HelloSWT.exe 1.0MB zipped, I had to run the command below first
strip HelloSWT.exe -o HelloSWT.exe
Perhaps there is a gcj option which makes the strip step unecessary.
Øyvind