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Re: GCJ 3.1: will generated code run on almost all versions of Windows?
- From: Adam King <aking at dreammechanics dot com>
- To: Jocelyn Paine <popx at ifs dot org dot uk>
- Cc: java at gcc dot gnu dot org
- Date: Tue, 30 Apr 2002 12:41:34 -0400
- Subject: Re: GCJ 3.1: will generated code run on almost all versions of Windows?
- References: <Pine.LNX.4.21.0204301012370.19260-100000@pop3.ifs.org.uk>
On Tue, Apr 30, 2002 at 10:37:15AM +0100, Jocelyn Paine wrote:
> so using GCJ 3.1 to
> generate a single .exe file that can be installed and run without needing
> anything else seems ideal.
This is exactly the reason why my company is currently using the mingw port
of gcj. We have 200k+ lines of java, 1000+ classes and 50k of C++ code
all compiling into a single exe. It's great!
> I won't know in advance which Windows users will have: 95, 98, NT, 2000,
> XP or ME.
We've tested the generated exe under 98, 98SE, ME, NT4.0 and 2000. It
works fine under all of them. We will test it with XP next week.
> I really be able to generate just one file, a .exe, and guarantee it will
> run on any of these?
I don't think it can be guaranteed, but it should work. Our exe does
exercise almost the entire Java API and there have been very few bugs.
Those that I have found have been easy to fix.
Adam