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Re: Native Compile to Shared Library?
- From: Andrew Haley <aph at redhat dot com>
- To: "Michael Purdy" <mpurdy at BTBOCES dot ORG>
- Cc: <java at gcc dot gnu dot org>
- Date: Thu, 3 Nov 2005 15:51:54 +0000
- Subject: Re: Native Compile to Shared Library?
- References: <s369dc3e.046@MAIN-EC-SRV4.btboces.org>
Michael Purdy writes:
> I'm revisiting the use of GCJ for native compilation purposes for
> OSX, LInux, and Windows targets. I'm wondering if I can compile a
> set of classes to a shared library that can be called via JNI or
> some other method from a Java app running via a Sun JVM.
While there is no technical reason that would make this impossible, it
does sound rather arduous and difficult to maintain.
> The goal would be to allow the necessary set of classes to be
> native compiled, but still written in Java. Thus, we would not
> need to have 3 codebases for the native code in c++ on each
> platform.
I don't quite know why you want to do this.
Andrew.