RE: Getting started with GCJ

["R. A. Rivas Diaz" <rivasdiaz at yahoo dot com>]

Hello Michael.

If you find downloading, installing and compiling the whole gcc sources a
bit complicated, you can download precomplied rpms for gcc 3.0.2 from a
mandrake cooker mirror.

go to www.rpmfind.net
and ask for gcc3.0, gcc3.0-java, gcc3.0-cpp, libgcc3.0, libgcj3.0 and
libgcj3.0-devel
if you want to download the c++ front end you will also need to ask for
gcc3.0-c++, libstdc++3.0, libstdc++3.0-devel
other front ends to gcc are in other packages...

maybe after that you should update some links in /etc/alternatives (gcc,
gcj, g++, gcjh) because they will keep referencing the gcc 2.96 that you
currently have.

rivas.

----- Original Message -----
From: Michael J McGonagle <fndsnd@earthlink.net>
To: <java@gcc.gnu.org>
Sent: Tuesday, November 06, 2001 12:00 AM
Subject: Getting started with GCJ


> Hello All,
>
> I have been contemplating resurrecting an only project that I started
> using JBuilder on a Windows machine. It has been about a year and a half
> since that time, and I was hoping to check out gcj while I resurrect
> this project.
>
> Basically, I was hoping that someone could direct me to a page or site
> that explains going about getting up and running with gcj. I am running
> Mandrake 8.0, and it comes with gcj version 2.96 (isn't that the version
> number of gcc?).
>
> Also, I was wondering what I might do to upgrade my whole compiler suite
> so that it is using the latest stable version. I have never tried to
> replace a program as large as the compiler suites, and I would imagine
> it is not for the faint of heart. (But nothing like jumping in with both
> feet!!!).
>
> Thanks for the help,
>
> Mike



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