Date: Tue, 12 Sep 2000 02:13:37 -0700 (PDT) From: Robert Swindells <swindellsr@genrad.co.uk> To: glewis@trc.adelaide.edu.au Cc: freebsd-java@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Native Java on FreeBSD Message-ID: <20000912091337.2E90D37B423@hub.freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <20000912120900.A41913@ares.trc.adelaide.edu.au> (message from Greg Lewis on Tue, 12 Sep 2000 12:09:00 %2B0930)
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Greg Lewis wrote: >>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 <http://sources.redhat.com/java/>; 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. It failed horribly the last time I tried building libgcj. One of the Java files caused an internal compiler error. This was about a month ago, so it may have improved. Robert To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-java" in the body of the message
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