Re: Is GCJ still active?

[lucianomanzo <lucianomanzo at gmail dot com>]

Hi Joel,

Congratulations for this excellent project!!

If I understend, it's possible to compile java code to binary code?

A SWT application runs with avian?

Thank you

On 06-02-2012 16:56, Joel Dice wrote:
> On Mon, 6 Feb 2012, Harpal Grover wrote:
>
> > On Mon, Feb 6, 2012 at 1:17 PM, Andrew Haley <aph@redhat.com> wrote:
> > > On 02/05/2012 06:33 PM, åæç wrote:
> > >
> > > > I am doing a project(open source) and need to complie some java
> > > > *.class files to *.dll and *.so files so that this files can run
> > > > without jre.
> > > >
> > > > I found there only have to tools can do it: Jet and GCJ.
> > > >
> > > > Jet is not under GPL license. And the latest release of GCJ was on Sep
> > > > 22, 2009. I need to compile the java files and support JDK 1.7
> > > > features. So does GCJ still active and may support JDK 1.7 in future?
> > >
> > > gcj ahas been released several times since then.  There is a little
> > > development still going on, but at present there are no plans to do
> > > a release that supports Java 1.7 features.
> > >
> > > Andrew.
> >
> >
> > So naturally, the next question then would be:
> >
> > Will there be any capabilities to compile java applications to native
> > binaries using the OpenJDK? If not, who should we contact to convey
> > the ever so popular and growing interest in being able to do this for
> > Linux, OS X and Windows?
>
> Avian[1] will do this well enough to run e.g. Eclipse, Tomcat, Jython, 
> etc., but I haven't tested any Swing/AWT apps yet.  OpenJDK 6 is 
> supported, and I've just started on a OpenJDK 7 port.
>
>  * [1] http://oss.readytalk.com/avian/