[gcj-eclipse-merge-branch] MinGW ecj: Cross-built ecjx?!

Tue Dec 5 19:13:00 GMT 2006

Tom Tromey writes:
 > >>>>> "Mohan" == Mohan Embar <gnustuff@thisiscool.com> writes:
 > 
 > Mohan> What's more, this (Makefile.am):
 > [...]
 > Mohan> ...leads me to wonder whether this could even work for
 > Mohan> static builds in the first place, given that even gij is
 > Mohan> broken on Win32 due to the fact that it really needs to be
 > Mohan> linked with the entirety of libgcj.a and not just whatever it
 > Mohan> happens to see at the moment it's being statically linked.
 > 
 > The Makefile as currently written assumes that either the interpreter
 > works, or you can use the system-wide .db to provide compiled objects
 > for ecj1.
 > 
 > I'm afraid I didn't consider Windows when writing this. Sorry about
 > that.
 > 
 > I'm open to solutions. What would work best? We could compile the
 > ecj jar, though that is likely to be pretty unfriendly -- it is rather
 > big.
That's what I do. It works Just Fine.
Andrew.