status of gcj

Sat Oct 4 22:07:00 GMT 2008

2008年9月17日 David Daney <ddaney@avtrex.com>:
> Johannes Klarenbeek wrote:
>>>> 2008年9月17日 David Daney <ddaney@avtrex.com>:
>>>>>> The current (as of 4.3) version no longer generates byte code, nor
>>> directly
>>> compiles .java source files. Instead we use ecj (Eclipse Compiler for
>>> Java)
>>> to do the java->class compilation. GCJ then compiles the class files
>>> (bytecode) into native code. This give us full java generics support.
>>>> so that means to compile a java file from source i need to download
>> the eclipse compiler for java as a seperate download..
>>>> You need a working gcj to do it.
>> The configuration and build instructions for GCC tell you how to build a
> working gcj. If you read them you will see where it says to run the
> contrib/download_ecj script to obtain the proper ecj.

i downloaded gcc-java-4.3.2.tar.bz2 but found neither a download_ecj
script or a build readme file...
>> An often simpler alternative is to use a system that has a pre-built gcj
> installed.
>> David Daney
>