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From: Rob Kramer <robk AT starhub DOT net DOT sg>
Subject: Re: ANNOUNCE: Update of DJGPP port of GCC-3.0.3
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Date: Sun, 03 Feb 2002 13:00:32 +0800
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Mark Stolz wrote:
>> Currently C, C++, Fortran and Objective C compilers are supported
>> for DJGPP. Java compiler is not ported and is not included
> 
> Is anyone working on porting the Java compiler? I've been half-toying
> with the idea of getting a Java running on DOS (a couple of partial
> implementation exist) and GCC/DJGPP seems is a possible starting point.

I tried porting the Kaffe VM to dos back in 96 or so, but that was a bit too 
ambitious for my skills back then :).  Perhaps you could port the compiler 
to DOS, but if you want it to compile to native code you'd still need 
support for threading and networking I guess (which were my main obstacles 
back then). A dos hosted compiler that would just compile to java bytecodes 
would be much easier, but also rather pointless.

Cheers!

   Rob