making static linkage useful (oh the horror!)

Thu Jan 16 02:57:00 GMT 2003

On Wed, 2003年01月15日 at 18:21, Adam Megacz wrote:
> Unfortunately, as you've probably noticed based on the last few months
> of mailing list traffic, the most common new use for gcj these days
> seems to be people who want a .java->.exe converter. These people
> really don't want to distribute a dll, especially not one that's
> 4-16MB (depending on stripping and compression).

I was surprised by this. Most of the cases where I want to use gcj
really require dynamic linking (jsp with native servlets, and apps with
scripting languages which let you reach outside the set of statically
linked classes).
On the other hand, I still value static linking because I'd like to keep
the nosys embedded ports building and running, and hope to one day
provide a J2ME configuration which allows for static linking.
AG