Re: Static executables

[Andrea aime <andrea dot aime at aliceposta dot it>]

David Daney wrote:
> Andrzej Bialecki wrote:
>
> > Here's the procedure I followed to prepare the library JAR, and the 
> > JNI part:
> >
> > # this depends on ncurses, but we're not linking now
> > gcj -c Toolkit.c -fjni -findirect-dispatch -o Toolkit.o
>
> As APH said, I don't think -findirect-dispatch should be here.  As far 
> as I know it works only with dynamic loading of gcj compiled .so files. 
>    JNI will probably still work, but I have not tried it.

Doh, this is really bad, since many libraries such as SWT (which uses
JNI) won't compile without -findirect-dispatch. Arg, I was really hoping
to find a way to generate small standalone executables for apps with
a graphical interface, but it seems to be tecnically impossible.

Best regards
Andrea Aime