GCJ Swing/AWT working on OS X -- article

[Bryce McKinlay]

John Gabriele wrote:

> Thanks for the reply Bryce.
>
> Well, I've got gcc installed in /usr/local/gcc_cvs, and I had set
> DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH to /usr/local/gcc_cvs/lib and had *not* set CLASSPATH,
> so I think I was already doing what you suggest:
>
>
> ~/temp/gcj_stuff $ ls /usr/local/gcc_cvs/lib/lib*awt*
> /usr/local/gcc_cvs/lib/lib-gnu-java-awt-peer-gtk.6.0.0.dylib*    
> /usr/local/gcc_cvs/lib/lib-gnu-java-awt-peer-gtk.dylib@
> /usr/local/gcc_cvs/lib/lib-gnu-java-awt-peer-gtk.6.dylib@        
> /usr/local/gcc_cvs/lib/lib-gnu-java-awt-peer-gtk.la*
>
>
> ~/temp/gcj_stuff $ echo $CLASSPATH
>
>
>
> ~/temp/gcj_stuff $ echo $DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH
> /usr/local/gcc_cvs/lib


That looks right. I guess the libgcj shared-object dynamic loading 
mechanism isn't working on OS X, then. Maybe ltdl isn't working right.

> How can I tell when I'm running natively compiled code vs. when I'm
> running interpreted bytecode?


Unfortunately I don't know of an easy way. We plan to add new runtime 
debugging options to libgcj that should help when you need to diagnose 
things like this. Perhaps a runtime option to disable the interpreter, too.

Regards

Bryce