"limitations of static linking." for the Cygwin/Ming port of gcj

Mon Jun 13 09:16:00 GMT 2011

On 13/06/11 04:49, Franklin Chou wrote:
> Hi all:
>> First off I'd like to say it's great to have a compiler running without
> all the Sun Microsystems/Oracle branding.
>> I'm running gcj version 3.4.4 on Cygwin 1.7.9 with java version 1.6
>> According to this message:
> http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/java/2005-04/msg00050.html
>> and the correspondence, gcj has trouble with dynamic linking for the
> regexp classes. But as of 2009:
>> September 22, 2009
> GCJ support on Windows (Cygwin and MinGW) targets has been enhanced with
> a number of bugfixes, and the option to build libgcj in DLL form for
> dynamic runtime linking.
>> "dynamic runtime linking" which I understand can fix the exception has
> been enabled. My question is when compiling code with the String.split()
> method, I still get the error at runtime:
>> Exception in thread "main" java.lang.Error: Not implemented
> <<No stacktrace available>>
>> so how would I go about fixing this?

I'm a gcj maintainer but I just don't know about Windows DLLs. Your
problem is going to be finding someone with the right combination of
interests. I'll help if I can, but I doubt that will be very much.
Andrew.