Re: FYI: Updated "Building GCJ for Windows"

[Tom Tromey <tromey at redhat dot com>]

>>>>> "Marco" == Marco Trudel <mtrudel@gmx.ch> writes:

Marco> For GCC 4.1.1 I additionally needed these patches (didn't use the ones
Marco> you mentioned):

Marco>  (http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/java-patches/2006-q2/msg00091.html)
Marco> - patch-start (http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/java/2006-04/msg00010.html)

These can go on the 4.1 branch.
I'll see if I can merge them over today.

Marco> - patch-jni (http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/java/2006-02/msg00066.html)
Marco>    Withhout this patch, JNI won't work (thus SWT fails)...

This one is outside my realm, you need a Windows maintainer or GWP
person to deal with it.

Marco> - uses of the regexp (e.g. String.split()) classes will fail with:
Marco>   java.util.MissingResourceException: Bundle gnu/regexp/MessagesBundle
Marco>   not found
Marco> Workaround: http://lists.debian.org/debian-gcc/2005/09/msg00141.html
Marco> better Workaround: put the gnu/regexp/MessagesBundle into a jar and
Marco> compile it too, so it will be builtin.

I'm afraid this problem is going to get worse.  The current plan is
to break out all the locale-related resources into property files
instead of classes.

The ideal thing here would be to have DLL support for Windows.  I
haven't really kept track of the status of this.

Tom