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Re: Minimal libjava for embedded applications?
On Wed, 2005-02-16 at 11:07, Tom Tromey wrote:
> >>>>> "Joshua" == Joshua Shagam (NY) <jshagam@guillemot.com> writes:
>
> Joshua> I was wondering if there has already been any work into making
> Joshua> a minimal libjava for use with gcj which only provides the
> Joshua> bare minimum necessary to get a basic application running.
>
> Nothing formal, though it has been talked about a lot.
> I know some other users omit various parts of the library from the
> build, for instance modifying the makefiles to omit all the AWT,
> Swing, etc, code.
It isn't that hard to write code to traverse the dependency tree,
looking at the constant pool data (and ignoring reflection), so why not
make it possible to do linking this way and if the user needs to they
could specify other things needed or used via reflection manually?
Brian
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