RE: attempt to send plain text email.

["Julia Smith" <julias at macrovision dot com>]

Thank you for the speedy reply. I am trying to work with the previous release 3.2.2. I scrabbled about for a win2k or linux binary but didn't really find any. I really dislike how cygwin has the webset setup. No information is just where you'd expect it to be.

JET looks useful, but we need cross platform compilation to non windows OS's and other processor families such as MIPS.

In anycase I made a mistake in invoking configure, so I'm now compiling, but I'd like to know where libgcj.jar *should* be built under the build directory I've created. I'll use find on the build later, but if I've made another mistake, then its going to be easier to back track.

Thankx again.

-----Original Message-----
From: Øyvind Harboe [mailto:oyvind dot harboe at zylin dot com]
Sent: Wednesday, February 26, 2003 12:16 PM
To: Julia Smith; java at gcc dot gnu dot org
Subject: RE: attempt to send plain text email.


> I'm afraid the build instructions are incorrect or 
> incomplete. Is there no distribution for win2k that is at 
> 3.3.2 I can use? 

Mohan has done some excellent work in this regard:

http://www.thisiscool.com/gcc33_mingw.htm

Without it, I wouldn't be testing GCJ 3.3 against my app.

I currently deploy my app compiled with GCJ 3.2(MinGW), since
it has more testing milage and there is an outstanding
garbage collection issue that is being worked out w/GCJ 3.3.

>I really don't want to spend my time 
> hassling with making the compiler. It takes a couple of hours 
> to build and find out if anything will work.
> 
> I need to get work done.
> 
> Any help would be appreciated.

I don't think GCJ 3.3 is for you unless you are able to set aside
some time for opensource community work. Its a marvellous piece of
software, but its not done yet. Although I haven't compiled GCJ yet,
I have found half a dozen issues that I've worked through + posted
my findings. The community has been quite responsive, so it is 
a rewarding experience.

I tried http://www.excelsior-usa.com JET product, and at the time
it seemed to work straight out of the box, e.g. they have JRE 1.4
support. Perhaps that is a better alternative for you?

Øyvind