Re: FYI: Article "Building GCJ on Windows" Relocated

[Jesper Juul / Soup Games <jesper at soupgames dot net>]

I would like to say thanks a lot for your work, building a 
cross-compiler was very easy this way.

But this brings me to a problem, I hope someone can answer:

Are GCJ 4.0x-built executables supposed to work on Windows 98?

GCJ 4.03 built as a cross-compiler as well as Mohan Embar's 4.02 
distribution create executables that work great for me on Windows XP.
But all programs built either way crash instantly with a page fault 
if run on Windows 98.
I have tested this on two different machines with fresh installs of 
Windows 98 and Windows 98 SE.

GCJ 3.x-built programs run with no problems. But with GCJ 4.0x, a 
simple "Hello World" crashes, and even still crash even after 
removing the System.out.println.

I can't see any references to this problem in the bug database, so I 
wonder if there is well-known a simple fix, or if I should launch on 
a bigger fact-finding mission...


-Jesper Juul


PS. You a download a gcj 4.03-built "hello world" executable here (26 
megs with debug info):
http://soupgames.net/temp/test403.exe





> Hello,
>
>   Due to a recent overhaul of my website, the "Building GCJ
> on Windows" article is now available as:
>
>
> <http://rmathew.com/articles/gcj/bldgcj.html>http://rmathew.com/articles/gcj/bldgcj.html
>
> Thanks,
> Ranjit.
>
> - --
> Ranjit Mathew      Email: rmathew AT gmail DOT com
>
> Bangalore, INDIA.    Web: <http://rmathew.com/>http://rmathew.com/