Question of the status of GCJ

Tue Feb 17 19:22:00 GMT 2009

Andrew Haley wrote:
> Mike Purdy wrote:
>> Thank you Andrew. 
>>>> This is interesting. Does the OpenJDK allow native compilation?
>> No.

But it would be possible with (relatively) less work. I have written a 
Java source code to Eiffel source code compiler using the OpenJDK 
classes for the standard library. I have mapped all Java language 
constructs and implemented the runtime far enough so that simple SWT 
applications can be compiled (kind of "proof of concept").
There is a good chance that I can find someone continuing the work on it 
the next half year. I'm hoping that it will then be usable with real 
applications and also for Linux/Mac.
If you're interested, the website is http://jaftec.origo.ethz.ch/
Marco