From owner-freebsd-java Mon Sep 11 19:41:20 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-java@freebsd.org Received: from ares.trc.adelaide.edu.au (ares.trc.adelaide.edu.au [129.127.246.5]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A90E637B424 for ; Mon, 11 Sep 2000 19:41:03 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from glewis@localhost) by ares.trc.adelaide.edu.au (8.9.3/8.9.3) id MAA41984; Tue, 12 Sep 2000 12:09:00 +0930 (CST) (envelope-from glewis) Date: Tue, 12 Sep 2000 12:09:00 +0930 From: Greg Lewis To: Rick Moore Cc: Greg Lewis , Brent Spaulding , freebsd-java@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Native Java on FreeBSD Message-ID: <20000912120900.A41913@ares.trc.adelaide.edu.au> References: <20000911080003.27801.qmail@web1701.mail.yahoo.com> <20000912083800.A36260@ares.trc.adelaide.edu.au> <004801c01c5f$ebf1d820$04fea8c0@patches> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0.1i In-Reply-To: <004801c01c5f$ebf1d820$04fea8c0@patches>; from rick@geckobot.com on Mon, Sep 11, 2000 at 07:19:43PM -0700 Sender: owner-freebsd-java@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Mon, Sep 11, 2000 at 07:19:43PM -0700, Rick Moore wrote: > Yeah, but someone would need to port it to FreeBSD-- as if there weren't > enough projects to do... > > Rick > > On Mon, Sep 11, 2000 at 01:00:03AM -0700, Brent Spaulding wrote: > > > Is any work being done on a compiler to create > > > "pure-BSD" native executables from Java code? > > > > > > Thank you, > > > Brent Spaulding > > > > Isn't this what the gcc frontend gcj is > > all about? Dunno how well it works though, so you are on your own in that > > respect. By porting, I assume you mean libgcj, since the gcj front end just compiles as part of gcc (if you want it to). Has anyone tried compiling libgcj under FreeBSD? According to the gcj web site, they don't believe getting it to compile would be too difficult. -- Greg Lewis glewis@trc.adelaide.edu.au Computing Officer +61 8 8303 5083 Teletraffic Research Centre To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-java" in the body of the message