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Re: java on cygwin?
- To: "Billinghurst, David (CRTS)" <David dot Billinghurst at riotinto dot com>
- Subject: Re: java on cygwin?
- From: Jeff Sturm <jsturm at one-point dot com>
- Date: Wed, 21 Mar 2001 23:28:16 -0500 (EST)
- cc: "'java at gcc dot gnu dot org'" <java at gcc dot gnu dot org>
On Thu, 22 Mar 2001, Billinghurst, David (CRTS) wrote:
> If they work, are there any major barriers to building libgcj?
You may find that you cannot build libgcj from a Cygwin-hosted
compiler:
- gcj seems to have trouble with filename case sensitivity and package
imports (i.e. java.awt.*), a possible bug in gcj
- libtool scripts run intolerably slow from Cygwin bash
If you attempt it, cross tools are the way to go. If you want threads,
you'll need a recent cygwin dll and you must configure boehm-gc for plain
win32 (not cygwin) and build boehm-gc as a DLL. A single-threaded libgcj
shouldn't be difficult.
Jeff