library created with gcc acceptable in MS VC++ application ?

[Anup Som]

I did stumble upon gcj and am considering it. My main concern is for the
algorithms and utilities (not stand alone apps) that I want my customers to
integrate into their applications. It seems that if I use GCJ (and CNI) to
expose my java functionality as a C API in .DLLs (.so etc) rather than
static .o, .lib etc. my customers should not have a problems calling them
from their non-gcc compiled parent applications.
Thanks.
-Anup

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From: llewelly@xmission.xmission.com
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Sent: Monday, April 12, 2004 12:22 PM
To: Eljay Love-Jensen
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Subject: Re: library created with gcc acceptable in MS VC++ application
?


Eljay Love-Jensen <eljay@adobe.com> writes:
[snip]
> I'm not sure what you are using Java for, since Java compiles to
> bytecode for a JVM.
[snip]

This isn't necessarily so. gcj (GCC's java frontend) can generate
    target-specific binaries, executables, shared libraries, and
    static libraries.