creating standalone gij/gcj builds

Thu Feb 26 16:28:00 GMT 2004

Many thanks for your informations.
listas@lozano.eti.br writes:
> Hi,
>>> > I recently used gcj and gij for the first time and am very interested
>> > in this project. However I find it very difficult to use it in eclipse
>> > (and probably any other IDE) as a Standard-VM. It's required to
>> > compile gcc and make various changes to get it working. I'm still
>> > having problems, but this is not the topic of this thread.
>> Red Hat 8/9 provided a package gck-jdk or something similar, which emulated the
> standard java2 sdk command-line tools but using gcj. It was used to compile
> OpenOffice and was dropped when 1.1 dropped this dependency on its build
> system. You can look for the packages at rpmfind.net and get the sources, to
> recompile or repackage for Debian.
>> But this won't make gcj compatible with IDEs like Eclipse. GCJ doesn't
> implements JPDA, for instance, and provides a different set of bootstrap
> libraries (rt.jar x libgcj.jar). You'd have to implement a lot of Eclipe
> plug-ins, maybe mixing with the gcc/gdb support from the Eclipse CDT, to make
> it work seamless using gcj. Even red hat native eclipse builds can't use gcj as
> the default java compiler, and they need to use a stadard java2 sdk for debugging.
>> Using other free software or proprietary java IDEs is out of question, as they
> need swing. But you can setup a nice working environment using generic
> programming editors like SciTE and Moleskine and debuggers like ddd and gvd.
>>> []s, Fernando Lozano
>>>
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Arnaud