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Re: gcj and awt
- To: John Peterson <pete at knorrinteractive dot com>
- Subject: Re: gcj and awt
- From: Jeff Sturm <jsturm at one-point dot com>
- Date: Thu, 19 Apr 2001 15:33:07 -0400 (EDT)
- cc: java at gcc dot gnu dot org
On Thu, 19 Apr 2001, John Peterson wrote:
> And since I'm just catching up with gcj in general, I assume
> that gcj compiles down to a real stand-alone executable,
> i.e. no extra jre/jvm/dll garbage!?
It isn't normally desirable to compile a single standalone
.exe for any language with a complex runtime. The executables would be
excessively large.
In the case of win32 and gcj, the garbage collector will
probably not work correctly unless it is a DLL, since it hooks into
DllMain().
Jeff