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Date: Fri, 17 Jan 2003 08:11:39 -0800
To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
From: Randall R Schulz <rrschulz AT cris DOT com>
Subject: Re: Using cygwin and JAVA/JNI
Cc: "gilles Bourgeois" <gbourgeois AT yaccom DOT com>
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Gilles,

I don't believe the ABI (application binary interface) used by the 
Microsoft compilers is compatible with that used by GCC and hence the Sun 
JVM, being compiled by the Microsoft tools, cannot access GCC-compiled 
libraries via JNI.

Randall Schulz


At 06:41 2003-01-17, gilles BOURGEOIS wrote:
>hello
>
>I wonder if it is possible to use JNI upon a DLL .i.e a shared libray like 
>.so file generated with gcc, without the mno-cygwin option. (my lib uses 
>IPC SYSTEM V, that is why I rely on the cygwin and cygipc libraries) I am 
>not a newbie with java/jni or gcc, but mixing all of them seems to crash 
>the JVM. Of course, It works if the library is generated with gcc under 
>linux but if executing the whole program (JVM instantiate) under cygwin, 
>it fails. Any one ever performed such a tricky architecture? thanks
>
>gilles


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