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Date: Sat, 17 Mar 2001 18:25:46 -0600 (CST)
From: Mumit Khan <khan AT NanoTech DOT Wisc DOT EDU>
To: cygwin-apps AT cygwin DOT com
Subject: Re: Interesting project -- getting gjc working on Cygwin
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On Sat, 17 Mar 2001, Christopher Faylor wrote:

> Anyone interested in tackling the project of getting the gcj compiler
> fully supported under Cygwin?  I don't know what this would entail,
> exactly.
> 
> Maybe Mumit knows?  Mumit?

The compiler should, at least in theory, work just fine under Cygwin, but 
the problem is the runtime. It's hard to port libgcj to Cygwin (threading 
is just one issue), and I don't know what the current status is. Jon
Beniston <jon AT sentinelware DOT freeserve DOT co DOT uk> was working on it, and at one
point had a non-threaded version ported to Cygwin [1], but his last known
URL http://www.cs.bris.ac.uk/~jb7216/libgcj/ seems to gone now.

I don't do Java, and not familiar with the gory details on what needs to
be done.

[1] http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/java/1999-q3/msg00240.html

Mumit