creating standalone gij/gcj builds

[Arnaud Vandyck]

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Jens Lehmann <jens.lehmann@goldmail.de> writes:

> Hello,

Hi Jens,

You are using Debian, aren't you? 

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Good ;-)

> I recently used gcj and gij for the first time and am very interested
> in this project. However I find it very difficult to use it in eclipse
> (and probably any other IDE) as a Standard-VM. It's required to
> compile gcc and make various changes to get it working. I'm still
> having problems, but this is not the topic of this thread.

You can install gcj from the Debian package:

$ dpkg -l gcj gij

ii  gcj            3.3.2-2        The GNU Java compiler
ii  gij            3.3.2-2        The GNU Java bytecode interpreter

> Of course everything would be significantly easier, if gij/gcj would
> provide a similar installation, like the J2SDK does. This means a
> packed file for different platforms you can simply extract somewhere
> and you are ready to run. By using the same/similar directory
> structure and file names, you could use gcj/gij very easy in existing
> IDEs.

1° Maybe it's more a distro thing;

2° About Debian, you can maybe join the debian-java mailing list and ask
   for this ('gcj, gij have a J2SDK like tree structure'), I think some
   people will be interresting. We probably post something related to
   this in less than a month ;-)

3° Also, gcj does provide a lot of tools but not all (gjdoc is not a
   part of gcj AFAIK).

> It also allows to run and test variuos versions of gcj/gij very easy
> without having to download the whole gcc sourcecode, compile etc. (I'm
> currently using Java most of the time and rarely C++.)
>
> This question is very obvious, but I didn't find any information
> concerning this topic. Is the above technically possible? If yes, what
> is your opinion about it?

Cheers,

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Arnaud
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