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Re: [PATCH] Build libgcj, libgcj-tools, and libffi as shared libraries on Windows
- From: Andrew Haley <aph at redhat dot com>
- To: Dave Korn <dave dot korn dot cygwin at googlemail dot com>
- Cc: "Aaron W. LaFramboise" <aaronavay62 at aaronwl dot com>, gcc-patches <gcc-patches at gcc dot gnu dot org>, java-patches at gcc dot gnu dot org
- Date: Sat, 11 Apr 2009 10:36:34 +0100
- Subject: Re: [PATCH] Build libgcj, libgcj-tools, and libffi as shared libraries on Windows
- References: <48B0BD19.8080300@aaronwl.com> <49E02E0F.6040503@gmail.com>
Dave Korn wrote:
> Aaron W. LaFramboise wrote:
>> This patch builds libgcj, libgcj-tools, and libffi as DLLs on Windows.
>
> This patch revises and updates Aaron's old patch from last August. It adds
> some essential support for Cygwin that the previous patch didn't have, and
> does things slightly differently in places.
>
> There's only one substantial addition: I added a mechanism in libffi's build
> system to allow the override of $toolexeclibdir. We use this on Cygwin to
> install the newly built libffi into the GCC private directory alongside cc1 et
> al., as we may have a different upstream version of libffi-devel installed in
> /usr/lib and /usr/include.
>
> I'm just putting this through a bootstrap at the moment. There's not going
> to be much to test because none of this used to be built on Cygwin at all
> before, so it can hardly regress. If it bootstraps and builds nice working
> DLLs, OK for HEAD?
I'm going to ask for libgcj test results: we need to know if it's fit for
use.
Andrew.