FYI: Updated "Building GCJ for Windows"

Sat Jun 17 09:19:00 GMT 2006

Hi Ranjit,
>You might want to check out why GCJ executables no longer work
>on Win9x...

...
>There is so much to do. :-(

I know. You've been away for too long. ;)
As for the Win98 thing, I tried working with Jesper on this
but gave up because I ran out of time. This is as far as I
got:
http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/java/2006-05/msg00166.html
>...how to make libgcj.dll using the GCC build machinery

Last I (vaguely) remember, TJ Laurenzo submitted the patches
for this. I thought they were all approved and checked in,
although I thought a new libtool upgrade was needed. I
was only half-listerning at the time.
The missing piece of this is of course the "exceptions
across DLL boundaries" part. Did Mark Wielaard ever end
up finding "Google Summer of Code" recruits?
>...dust off your partial Win32 AWT peer implementation and make
>it work with the current GNU Classpath, etc.

The SwingWT integration in my build solves this problem somewhat.
I've done more work in this area for a client (including some
minor Classpath bugfixes), but he wants to hold off on releasing
patches until the project is complete.
>For the AWT peer thingy, you should be able to work directly with
>GNU Classpath, Jikes and JamVM and have a faster edit/build/test
>cycle that with the whole GCC bootstrap thingy. (I suppose; I
>haven't yet tried this out yet.)

JamVM doesn't work on MinGW and is broken for Cygwin, last I
checked.
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