"Building GCJ for Windows" Scripts Issues (was Re: compiling gcj 4.0.2 for windows on unbuntu)

[Andi Vajda]

On Sun, 23 Jul 2006, Mohan Embar wrote:

>> I eventually got a native Windows gcj 4.0.2 capable of producing Windows
>> executables but the PyLucene unit tests failed to run and I reverted to using
>> gcj 3.4.6 on Windows which I built using the new scripts - with sysroot
>> thingie - for binutils and the old scripts and some link hackery for gcj
>> 3.4.6.
>
> Did my thisiscool.com 4.02 build not work for you?

I did not try it. I need a custom build of gcj to work around the 'too many 
root sets' error in boehm-gc with LARGE_CONFIG #defined in gc_privs.h.

I should give it a try though, to see if it was my build or if it's bugs in 
gcj/libgcj that prevent the PyLucene unit tests from passing. (In my earlier 
message I should have said 'failed to pass' instead of 'failed to run', the 
python extension (a DLL) did run but with errors).

I'm not too optimistic though: so far, no gcj 4.x, on any OS I tried (*), has 
passed the PyLucene unit test suite without patching. gcj 3.4.x (x >= 2) 
passes all PyLucene unit tests out of the box.

Andi..

(*) except for gcj 4.1.0 built with darwinports on PPC Mac OS X 10.4.
     (building gcj 4.1.0 from sources on PPC Mac OS X 10.4 failed).