Standalone use of gcj

[fernando@lozano.eti.br]

Hi Angelo,

> to my knowledge jikes is an ordinary java-to-bytecode
> compiler. It is not a java-to-native or bytecode-to-native
> one.
> 
> I needed a native one, better if a bytecode-to-native one
> accompanied with any runtime support libraries is needs.
> I do not need a VM (but of course would not mind if the
> tool has also one, as long as it does not use it when
> the classes are compiled ot native code).

So there's no way you'll be able to mix a compliler from one vendor (or free
software project) with the standard classes from another vendor. There's
allways a minimum run-time support needed by any compiler, and the Java specs
doesn't separete this from the standard classes.


[]s, Fernando Lozano