Re: Getting started with GCJ

[Michael J McGonagle <fndsnd at earthlink dot net>]

Hello Again,

Thanks to all who replied to my original post. I decided that I will
tackle this problem in stages, I am going to postpone installing gcc3.0,
as this is just a bit over my limit of things to deal with at this
moment. Anyway, is there a REALLY good reason to upgrade? Mandrake uses
version 2.96 of gcc, and I had heard that this version of the compiler
is not the best.

On another note, the project that I am trying to port over has one
anomoly that is preventing my from compiling this manually. I used an
IDE on Windows, so this problem never cropped up for me. Basically, I
have two classes that are mutually dependant on each other, and I can't
seem to compile one of them without already having compiled the other,
but I can't compile the other without first compiling the first class.
So, I did try using the '-depend' option in 'javac', but that did not
seem to work (is this supposed to do what I think it is supposed to
do?). I have not tried this with 'gcj', yet.

So what it comes down to, is how do you compile two classes that are
mutually dependant on each other?

Also, does anyone know of a simple tool that can handle the compilation
of a complex project? Do most people use Makefile's?

Thanks again for your much appreciated help,

Mike