Re: Is GCJ still active?

[Joel Dice <joel dot dice at gmail dot com>]

On Tue, 7 Feb 2012, lucianomanzo wrote:

> Hi Joel,
>
> Congratulations for this excellent project!!
>
> If I understend, it's possible to compile java code to binary code?

Yes, Avian supports either JIT (just-in-time) or AOT (ahead-of-time) 
compilation to machine code, or a mix of both.

> A SWT application runs with avian?

Yes.

Please direct any further questions or comments about Avian to 
avian@googlegroups.com, since they're off-topic for this list.  Thanks.

> 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.
> >
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