Re: FYI: Updated "Building GCJ for Windows"

[Ranjit Mathew <rmathew at gmail dot com>]

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Tom Tromey wrote:
> 
> Marco> Before building the compiler running on windows building for windows:
> Marco> - patch-start (http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/java/2006-04/msg00010.html)
> Marco>    Withhout this patch, compiled programs won't do anything on windows
> 
> I'd like Ranjit to say whether this is ok for the 4.1 branch.  If so I
> can merge it over.  I really know nothing about this area...

I think it is; thanks a lot.


> Marco> - patch-jni (http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/java/2006-02/msg00066.html)
> Marco>    Withhout this patch, JNI won't work (thus SWT fails)...
>
> This one is outside my realm, you need a Windows maintainer or GWP
> person to deal with it.

I believe here the problem is that we are calling _Unwind_Backtrace()
for targets that are using SJLJ exceptions when it is supposed to
working only for DWARF2 EH targets:

  http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-patches/2003-04/msg00472.html

A half-way-there patch was proposed here:

  http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/java/2006-04/msg00025.html

Thanks,
Ranjit.

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Ranjit Mathew       Email: rmathew AT gmail DOT com

Bangalore, INDIA.     Web: http://rmathew.com/




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