Re: java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: java.text.DecimalFormat

[Andrew Haley <aph at redhat dot com>]

Keith Boynton wrote:

> I'm pretty new to GCJ, however I have been making good progress. I've 
> managed to resolve quite a few issues.
> 
> I have reached a problem I'm really struggling to resolve though.
> 
> I'm successfully compiling my project and have managed to resolve quite a 
> few "NoClassDefFoundError"s, by various methods.
> 
> However the fix for this one is really eluding me...
> 
> Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: 
> java.text.DecimalFormat
>    at gnu.xml.transform.Stylesheet.initDefaultDecimalFormat
> 
> I have the following in my code to try and force linking...
> 
> private static final Class class3 = java.text.DecimalFormat.class;
> static { java.text.DecimalFormat.class.getName(); }
> 
> I have a version of rt.jar that I know definitely contains 
> java/text/DecimalFormat.class that is being compiled.

gcj will only use its own rt.jar.

> I'm using the following flags:
> -Wl,--allow-multiple-definition
> -findirect-dispatch
> 
> Can anyone give me a few pointers as to what I need to do to get this class 
> included in my binary?

We will help you, but you must tell us which gcj release you're using
and you really should provide a short (but complete, compilable) test
case that shows the problem.

Andrew.