GCJ information

[Ghanta, Bose]

Dear Adam and everyone on Java team,

  Thank you very much for the prompt responses to my set of questions.  I
appreciate it very much.  I am sure I will be coming back to you in near
future with additional questions. Please continue the effort to make gcj as
well known as gnu c and c++ compilers and also a better product compared
with Sun Java compiler.

Thank you,
Bose

-----Original Message-----
From: Adam Megacz [mailto:gcj@lists.megacz.com]
Sent: Wednesday, December 12, 2001 1:04 PM
To: 'java@gcc.gnu.org'
Subject: Re: GCJ information



Tom Tromey <tromey@redhat.com> writes:
> Bose> 	Does not require dynamic linking in OS

> You mean shared libraries?  You can build libgcj statically.  There
> may be some warts there, though, as people don't regularly test this.

I do (on Linux). It works great; I use it a lot. Statically-compiled
mode is my top priority for getting gcj-win32 working as well; I'm not
going to try for a libgcj.dll anytime soon.

After the new year I'm going to hack up some tools to help trim down
the size of all-static gcj binaries. The aforementioned simple "dump
list of loaded classes and feed back into linker" will probably be my
first attempt.

  - a