libgcjx.la

Tom Tromey tromey@redhat.com
Fri Jan 31 21:25:00 GMT 2003


>>>>> "Scott" == Scott Gilbertson <scottg@mantatest.com> writes:

Tom> Is there any reason for this?  I think we should rename the library to
Tom> `lib-gnu-awt-xlib.la' and get rid of libgcjx altogether.

Scott> I've never looked at that aspect of the thing, but that sounds
Scott> fine to me.

I'm going to make this change.

Tom> Scott, how do you currently make the peers visible to your code?
Scott> To use shared libraries, I just add -lgcjx
Scott> nd  -Dawt.toolkit=gnu.awt.xlib.XToolkit  to the gcj command line.

On the trunk you won't have to set awt.toolkit any more, if you
configure with --enable-java-awt=xlib.

Scott> For static linking, it's kind of obnoxious at the moment.

Yeah.

Scott> I suspect that I'd be able to do -lgcjx and reference XToolkit
Scott> and maybe a couple of other classes in one of my sources.

Yeah, that's what I'd recommend.

Tom



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