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Re: GCC 4.1: Buildable on GHz machines only?
Rutger Ovidius writes:
> Thursday, May 5, 2005, 1:16:05 PM, you wrote:
>
> RH> On Thu, May 05, 2005 at 04:57:48PM -0300, Alexandre Oliva wrote:
> >> The savings of creating static libraries would be small if we
> >> refrained from building non-PIC object files.
>
> RH> But still largely useless. Who in their right mind is going to
> RH> use an 83MB static library when a shared library is available.
>
> Everyone on win32 builds libgcj static, and probably wants to keep it
> that way if they plan to distribute their apps.
>
> What would be the point of distributing a giant shared library with
> every application compiled with gcj, especially when awt/swing only
> hook into gtk?
>
> I don't think libgcj.dll will ever be standard on any distribution of
> win32, yet the many advantages of compiling java code to fast, native
> executables apply on this platform.
I don't think that anyone is proposing to drop static libraries on
Win32. Win32 systems have their own requirements that make static
libs preferable in some cases. On GNU systems, however, static libs
make no sense at all for the Java language.
Andrew.