Native Compile to Shared Library?

Thu Nov 3 15:49:00 GMT 2005

Michael Purdy writes:
 > I'm revisiting the use of GCJ for native compilation purposes for
 > OSX, LInux, and Windows targets. I'm wondering if I can compile a
 > set of classes to a shared library that can be called via JNI or
 > some other method from a Java app running via a Sun JVM.
While there is no technical reason that would make this impossible, it
does sound rather arduous and difficult to maintain.
 > The goal would be to allow the necessary set of classes to be
 > native compiled, but still written in Java. Thus, we would not
 > need to have 3 codebases for the native code in c++ on each
 > platform.
I don't quite know why you want to do this.
Andrew.