building gcj on OS X (also AWT)

Mon May 24 17:19:00 GMT 2004

On May 24, 2004, at 8:23 AM, Michael Purdy wrote:
> John, et. al.
>> This is a great thread!
>> How do we go about using gcj to compile whole existing .jar files?

gcj somejar.jar --main=some.class.in.Jar -o myapp
or perhaps:
gcj -shared somejar.jar -o libsomejar.so
> Also, does anyone know of a resource which further explains the linking
> process and how to link many files at once.

Use "-l" to link a binary that has some dependency on a shared library. 
For example, if you already have the libsomejar.so above:
gcj Main.java --main=Main -o myapp -lsomejar
To run it:
export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=.
./myapp
It would be cool if this kind of thing were documented in the gcj 
manual. Patches welcome, as always.
Regards
Bryce