From owner-freebsd-java Tue Sep 12 2:13:40 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-java@freebsd.org Received: from euromail1.genrad.com (x109.genrad.co.uk [195.99.3.109]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2E90D37B423 for ; Tue, 12 Sep 2000 02:13:37 -0700 (PDT) Received: from CDP437 (cdp437.uk.genrad.com [132.223.135.120]) by euromail1.genrad.com with SMTP (Microsoft Exchange Internet Mail Service Version 5.5.2650.21) id SQMDBCQT; Tue, 12 Sep 2000 10:13:35 +0100 From: Robert Swindells To: glewis@trc.adelaide.edu.au Cc: freebsd-java@FreeBSD.ORG In-reply-to: <20000912120900.A41913@ares.trc.adelaide.edu.au> (message from Greg Lewis on Tue, 12 Sep 2000 12:09:00 +0930) Subject: Re: Native Java on FreeBSD Reply-To: rjs@fdy2.demon.co.uk Message-Id: <20000912091337.2E90D37B423@hub.freebsd.org> Date: Tue, 12 Sep 2000 02:13:37 -0700 (PDT) Sender: owner-freebsd-java@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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 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