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Announcement: micro-libgcj 0.1
- From: Joel Dice <dicej at mailsnare dot net>
- To: java at gcc dot gnu dot org
- Date: Mon, 11 Sep 2006 09:41:45 -0600 (MDT)
- Subject: Announcement: micro-libgcj 0.1
For those who are interested, I'd like to announce micro-libgcj 0.1. This
release is a rewrite based on GCC 4.1.1 and has benefitted from the
feedback I received on this list for the original release back in January.
New in this release:
- Better compatibility with Java. Most importantly, the controversial,
non-standard synchronization semantics of 0.0 have been reverted to the
standard Java semantics.
- A small subset of java.io is now included
- Optional SWT support for GUI development (micro-swt)
That last one is probably the most interesting. Micro-swt is based on CNI
instead of JNI, which makes it faster and easier to debug. Paired with
micro-libgcj, it allows you to create small, standalone, multiplatform GUI
apps in Java. For example, SWT's ControlExample weighs in at around 1MB
or less when run through UPX.
Micro-libgcj 0.1 is available as a patch against the GCC 4.1.1 source
tree. Thus, the same sources are shared between the libgcj and
micro-libgcj builds. The Java sources are preprocessed using a simple
Perl script inspired by Kawa's PreProcess. Also, an experimental branch
based on a recent GCC 4.2.0 snapshot is available.
More information is available at http://ulibgcj.sourceforge.net.
Feedback is welcome.
- Joel