Re: Compiling XML parsers (xerces, Dom4j, etc...)

[Bryce McKinlay <mckinlay at redhat dot com>]

Andrew Haley wrote:

> Bryce McKinlay writes:
> > 
> > >First, gcj can in fact compile jar files into usable libraries (as we
> > >all know or have read), but there are limitations which are not clearly
> > >advertised or documented (at least not in any obvious way).
> > >
> > >1) The first limitation is that in order to get working libs from jars
> > >you have to work with this assumption. The jar can only contain one
> > >package. 
>
> No.
>
> > Yes, unfortunately this is a well-known limitation of the existing
> > shared-library naming scheme.
>
> All you have to do is link explicitly against the shared library.
Well, yes, obviously that's the alternative - but it may not be an 
option in a mixed compiled/bytecode application, or where you want to 
compile/run an application against a complex set of dependencies 
(Jonas!) easily without being forced to link everything explicitly.

Bryce