Re: Where to find for gcj-mingw builds?

[TJ Laurenzo <tlaurenzo at gmail dot com>]

I have done some work on the mainline over the past couple of months
to get the autoconf/automake machinery in libjava to build a mingw
dll.  This isn't done and isn't for the faint of heart.  Even when I
(or someone else) gets a dll going, there are other issues, primarily
with exception handling, which will need to be addressed.  I'm afraid
that a stable 4.1+ dll based libjava is a long way off.

If you want to just use the static build (which won't give you much in
the way of the new ABI to play with), then there are a handful of
patches that must be applied to get the current source in CVS to build
-- to say nothing about passing the testsuite.  Also, I am yet to get
current versions of the suite to actually build under mingw (this
might be my own brain-damage -- I gave up after an hour of trying to
find a working bison that didn't throw an access violation when called
from the makefiles).  I always generate a cross compiler from Linux
and then use it to build a native compiler.

If you want more information on what has been done on this front so
you can try to build your own, I could point you to the relevant
threads on the list.  But if you are only looking for stable binaries,
I'm afraid the answer is to wait.

TJ

On 9/28/05, Clemens Eisserer <linuxhippy@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Till now I always used the mingw builds from thisiscool and was really
> happy with them, however it seems they are not updates anymore :-(
> However I would like to play with the new ABI also on windows and I do
> not want to ship anything based on a pre-release build of gcc/gcj.
> Does anybody know if other pre-built mingw-binaries exist?
>
> Thanks in advance, lg Clemens
>