Re: [Fwd: [Java-gnome-developer] Java-Gnome, ARM processors and gcj]

[Tom Tromey <tromey at redhat dot com>]

Bob>  2. It would be nice if JNI on cross-compiler GCJs just worked in the
Bob> future.  However, we cannot count on that for now.  In the meantime,
Bob> there should be a special option for Java-Gnome + GCJ.  This would
Bob> include:
Bob>  a) Linking the JNI code and Java classes into the same .so library.
Bob>  b) Removing calls to System.loadLibrary() from the static initializers.

This has come up several times for gcj.  I thought that perhaps
libltdl pre-linking would solve this problem, but I'm still not sure
that anybody has actually tried this.

We would need to teach libgcj's configure to recognize host-x-host
situations so that libltdl continues to work.  I think we already have
some host-x-host stuff in configure.in, this probably won't be too
hard.  I can provide some pointers if someone wants to tackle this,
otherwise let's at least file it in bugzilla.

Bob>  3. One might consider building CNI bindings for the GTK+ calls, rather
Bob> than the current JNI bindings.

Does java-gnome auto-generate its bindings?  Or are they hand written?
I'd imagine it would be easy to turn auto-generated bindings into CNI.

Tom