java on cygwin?

[Jeff Sturm]

On Thu, 22 Mar 2001, Billinghurst, David (CRTS) wrote:
> If they work, are there any major barriers to building libgcj?

You may find that you cannot build libgcj from a Cygwin-hosted
compiler:

- gcj seems to have trouble with filename case sensitivity and package
imports (i.e. java.awt.*), a possible bug in gcj
- libtool scripts run intolerably slow from Cygwin bash

If you attempt it, cross tools are the way to go.  If you want threads,
you'll need a recent cygwin dll and you must configure boehm-gc for plain
win32 (not cygwin) and build boehm-gc as a DLL.  A single-threaded libgcj
shouldn't be difficult.

Jeff