Re: FYI: Updated "Building GCJ for Windows"

[Ranjit Mathew <rmathew at gmail dot com>]

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Mohan Embar wrote:
> 
> Like I said, I wish I had more time to work on this, but Ranjit is
> definitely the better man. With Bill Gates stepping down from
> Microsoft, maybe he'll have time to come to Bangalore and
> personally congratulate you (and maybe even roll up his sleeves
> and help).

That's not an exciting prospect - are you trying to puncture
my enthusiasm? ;-)


> If there are simple, tiny things, I might be able to help. I have
> a collection of Virtual Machines (Win2K, XP, 98 (broken for gcj
> 4.0 and higher)) that I can quickly run a test executable on.

You might want to check out why GCJ executables no longer work
on Win9x, how to make stack traces work again, how to make
libgcj.dll using the GCC build machinery, dust off your
partial Win32 AWT peer implementation and make it work with
the current GNU Classpath, etc. There is so much to do. :-(

For the AWT peer thingy, you should be able to work directly with
GNU Classpath, Jikes and JamVM and have a faster edit/build/test
cycle that with the whole GCC bootstrap thingy. (I suppose; I
haven't yet tried this out yet.)


> Also, I haven't been tainted by the exceptions-across-DLL-boundaries
> atom stuff, so if someone describes what needs to be done to
> pass this information across the DLL and if it doesn't take too long
> to implement, I can maybe write a disconnected implementation of this
> that someone else can plug into gcc at the right place.

I don't know much about this issue myself. I think Danny
should be able to give you more information on what is the
problem.

Thanks,
Ranjit.

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Ranjit Mathew       Email: rmathew AT gmail DOT com

Bangalore, INDIA.     Web: http://rmathew.com/




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