-findirect-dispatch problem

Thu Dec 1 12:31:00 GMT 2005

Michael Baranov writes:
 > I'm compiling a java application of mine with Mohan Embar's GCC/GCJ
 > v.4.0.2 (http://www.thisiscool.com/gcc_mingw.htm)
 > The comands are:
 > 
 > gcj -c my.jar -o my.o -fjni -findirect-dispatch
 > gcj --main=My -o my.exe my.o -fjni
 > 
 > All goes smoothly, but at runtime it can not find org.w3c.dom.Document
 > class and many more alike that.
 > It looks like -findirect-dispatch modifies the code to lookup classes
 > at runtime AND prevents those classes
 > from being linked in (does not notice them during compillation?) All
 > those classes it looks for ARE in my libgcj.
-findirect-dispatch doesn't work with static linkage, and I remember
that MinGW doesn't work properly with dynamic linkage. It makes no
sense to use it in this context.
Andrew.