creating standalone gij/gcj builds

[Jens Lehmann <jens dot lehmann at goldmail dot de>]

Hello,

I recently used gcj and gij for the first time and am very interested in 
this project. However I find it very difficult to use it in eclipse (and 
probably any other IDE) as a Standard-VM. It's required to compile gcc 
and make various changes to get it working. I'm still having problems, 
but this is not the topic of this thread.

Of course everything would be significantly easier, if gij/gcj would 
provide a similar installation, like the J2SDK does. This means a packed 
file for different platforms you can simply extract somewhere and you 
are ready to run. By using the same/similar directory structure and file 
names, you could use gcj/gij very easy in existing IDEs.

It also allows to run and test variuos versions of gcj/gij very easy 
without having to download the whole gcc sourcecode, compile etc. (I'm 
currently using Java most of the time and rarely C++.)

This question is very obvious, but I didn't find any information 
concerning this topic. Is the above technically possible? If yes, what 
is your opinion about it?

Jens Lehmann