Question about libiconv2.dll and gcj

Fri Oct 12 10:20:00 GMT 2007

Meir wrote:
> Brian Dessent wrote:
>> Meir wrote:
>>>>>>> ok im looking in to Azureus that i know compiled with gcj , and i dont
>>> the the dll any where there
>>> how can it be?
>>>>>>> I'm not sure where you're getting that from but it's not true. Azureus
>> ships as bytecode in a .jar file. Don't be fooled by the presence of
>> azureus.exe as that is just a launcher that spawns Sun's JRE to run the
>> bytecode. There is no gcj involved anywhere.
>>>> If you wanted to remove the dependancy on the shared libiconv DLL you
>> could rebuild libgcj against a static libiconv, but that would be a
>> large amount of work just to avoid distributing a library. And libiconv
>> is a large library (nearly a megabyte of code and data) and thus this
>> would contribute to the already severe bloat problem that MinGW gcj
>> suffers from since shared libgcj isn't supported.
>>>> Brian
>>>>> hi tnx for the replay , i dont know if to open new thread
> but can you recommend good books/tutorials to use gcj
> thanks allot