Re: GCJ snapshots for Windows?

[Ranjit Mathew <rmathew at hotmail dot com>]

Erik Poupaert wrote:
> > You will need patches for MinGW against the GCC CVS:
> I can see from the diff that these patches are purely GCC. They don't seem
> to touch the libjava sub-facilities.
>
> Is there a reason why the minGW patches have not been integrated into GCC
> CVS? If they are formulated carefully, they should have no incidence on the
> other targets ... Has this issue been raised somewhere? Is there someone who
> tries to obtain full accreditation from the GCC administration for these
> patches?
Unfortunately, the Windows based targets just don't seem to be
that worthwhile to the GCC maintainers - the fact that MS
has some really pervert and gross ways of doing things doesn't
help matters at all.

So the MinGW/Cygwin GCC tree has some patches that
haven't made it to the mainline - in fact, only
recently did the full support for ms-bitfields has gone in
into the mainline after almost 2 years of lobbying by the
ReactOS/MinGW/Cygwin developers... :-(

Thankfully, the GCJ part seems to be a lot more receptive and
encouraging to Windows. Thank you guys!


> > Since these are a bit old, you might need to adapt them to the current
> CVS...
>
> Retrofitting these patches continuously, on a moving CVS target, would be
> truly unsustainable. We'd rather work on a breakthrough in the
> aforementioned integration. Has the GCC administration raised concerns or
> objections to these patches? Is there a way to address these concerns? Who
> is the chief negotiator on behalf of minGW? Where is the list of outstanding
> issues?
You should browse through the archives of the mingw-devel
list. Either on GeoCrawler or on Gmane:

http://www.geocrawler.com/redir-sf.php3?list=mingw-dvlpr
http://news.gmane.org/thread.php?group=gmane.comp.gnu.mingw.devel

(newsgroup "gmane.comp.gnu.mingw.devel" on newsgroup server
"news.gmane.org" - far more convenient than GC, IMHO.)


> > > > > > See this message as well if you get errors compiling libstdc++-v3:
> > > > > > After this, give it a try and if you encounter any problems
> > > > > > we can try ironing them out - either here or (better I guess)
> > > > > > off the list.
>
> I'd rather wait until the accreditation problem clears up.
>
> This sounds like a relatively minor problem. A libstdc expert will probably
> be able to solve it in a minimum number of replies to the libstdc mailing
> list and guide this quickly to its final resolution.
See this message (and its followups):

http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/libstdc++/2002-12/msg00232.html

Sincerely Yours,
Ranjit.

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