Re: Compiling of GCJ and SWT under MacOS X

[Andi Vajda <andi at osafoundation dot org>]

> [differences in JNI implementations]
>
> I think in recent versions of mingw this is no longer
> the case.
>
> Imho the jni/java issue is not a platform issue but an
> OSX issue. My java applications run quite well with
> IBM jdk1.4.1 on Linux for PPC.  Running kawa on OSX
> 10.1/jdk1.3 reboots the machine immediately, in 10.3
> the apple JIT crashes after one hour.

Agreed, if Apple changes the jni structures and doesn't look for compatibility 
with the other VMs, there is not much more gcj can do.

> Hopefully this and the compatibility with Sun's java
> will improve with 10.4.  Until then I think it's not
> worth thinking about gcj and OSX java compatibility.

I doubt that this is going to get any better since the cat is out of the bag. 
If they change the jni structures again, they will break all the previously 
compiled JNI libs as well.

By the way, does anybody know if gcj is going to be part of Apple's gcc 
toolchain at some point ? At this time, they don't ship it.

Andi..