FYI: Updated "Building GCJ for Windows"

Thu Jun 15 22:24:00 GMT 2006

Hello Andrew
> > - reflection (Class.forName(...)) is broken
> > Classes won't be found be Class.forName() (thus throwing an 
> > ClassNotFoundException).
> > Any Ideas? I once read something in the archives, but I'm really unable 
> > to find it again... I hope there's a solution for this.
> > 
> > - serialisation seems to be broken too
> > Writing to files works, loading again fails with (if I remember right) 
> > ClassNotFoundExceptions... Might be because of the reflection problem. 
> > my solution was to write good old ordinary config files
> > 
> > - stacktraces are unusuable
> > Whats the state? I'm relatively new to this list and it seems to be an 
> > old problem. Something like dwarf would be better than sjil exceptions 
> > but don't works on windows or would need a big deal to implement; 
> > there's no active windows maintainer so this keeps open? Am I more or 
> > less in the picture?
>> All of these bugs are symptoms of a common problem: stack traces don't
> work.
>> The only reasonable way to solve this on Windows is to make DWARF
> unwinding work and to write code to allow us to unwind through frames
> in DLLs. We need the latter because sometimes gcc-compiled code is
> called as a Windows callback, and it may throw exceptions that require
> it to unwind through the DLL.
>> As far as I'm aware fixing this is tricky but not heroically
> difficult.

But it would definitely be heroic to do it (because there seems no one 
to be interested in it). In my opinion, this is something that 
definitely has to be done, so that gcj doesn't end up as a project for a 
couple of linux hackers...
Who has the knowledge to do this? Would a donation to the project or to 
the implementer maybe incite someone?
regards
Marco