Converting a JAR into a gcj-statically-linked SO

Wed Jan 9 18:23:00 GMT 2008

Matthijs van de Water writes:
 > On Jan 9, 2008 1:17 PM, Andrew Haley <aph@redhat.com> wrote:
 > > > It's really hard to do. A hell of a lot harder than just recompiling
 > > > libgcj.a PIC, which is pretty easy.
 > >
 > > Actually, you don't even need to recompile it: just find all the .o
 > > files that were used to build libgcj.so and put them into a .a file.
 > 
 > OK, that sounds easy but I'm not really sure how to do it... I'm
 > looking at the Makefile in libjava and the output of doing a "make
 > libgcj.la", which looks like it should contain the information I need.
 > But frankly I'm not really sure which of the huge amount of .o files
 > should be AR-ed together in the .a file.
 > 
 > Can I somehow edit the libjava/Makefile to convince libtool to do the
 > dirty job for me?
At the thought of anything to do with libtool I begin to panic. :-)
You don't have to do anything like that. For every file that is
compiled by libtool, two objects are created: one called foo.o and one
called ./libs/foo.o. The non-PIC one is foo.o.
So, to get an archive with just the PIC libs it's
 find . -name .libs | while read i; do ls -1 $i/*.o ; done | xargs ar q foo.a
Pretty hacky but good enough for an experiment.
Andrew.
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