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Date:	Thu, 31 Jul 2003 08:00:13 -0400 (EDT)
From:	Igor Pechtchanski <pechtcha AT cs DOT nyu DOT edu>
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Subject:	Re: "Using Cygwin Effectively with Windows" -- Draft of new User's
	Guide section
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On Thu, 31 Jul 2003, Gerrit P. Haase wrote:

> Hallo Igor,
>
> >> There are no Cygwin-native java compilers, right?
>
> > Well, I use jikes, which, IIRC, built OOTB.  Haven't gotten around to
> > packaging it up yet, but probably will work on that shortly.
>
> There is also gcj included in the latest GCC package which seems to
> produce binaries.
>
> Gerrit

True, but people complained that it doesn't work, and doesn't provide a
full java implementation.  Besides, gcj is arguably mostly a java
run-time (albeit with a static compiler).  jikes is a source-to-bytecode
compiler, a replacement for javac.
	Igor
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