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Re: Interesting project -- getting gjc working on Cygwin


On Sat, Mar 17, 2001 at 06:25:46PM -0600, Mumit Khan wrote:
>On Sat, 17 Mar 2001, Christopher Faylor wrote:
>
>> Anyone interested in tackling the project of getting the gcj compiler
>> fully supported under Cygwin?  I don't know what this would entail,
>> exactly.
>> 
>> Maybe Mumit knows?  Mumit?
>
>The compiler should, at least in theory, work just fine under Cygwin, but 
>the problem is the runtime. It's hard to port libgcj to Cygwin (threading 
>is just one issue), and I don't know what the current status is. Jon
>Beniston <jon@sentinelware.freeserve.co.uk> was working on it, and at one
>point had a non-threaded version ported to Cygwin [1], but his last known
>URL http://www.cs.bris.ac.uk/~jb7216/libgcj/ seems to gone now.
>
>I don't do Java, and not familiar with the gory details on what needs to
>be done.
>
>[1] http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/java/1999-q3/msg00240.html

This is my understanding too.  There's no reason why the compiler couldn't
be built -- I don't do it now for gcc because it would just confuse people.

The library is the problem.

cgf


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