From: "Tim 'Zastai' Van Holder" Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp References: <39663EE6 DOT 146B014 AT home DOT com> Subject: Re: GCC & Java Lines: 27 X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2314.1300 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2314.1300 Message-ID: Date: Tue, 11 Jul 2000 18:50:15 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 213.224.63.5 X-Trace: afrodite.telenet-ops.be 963341415 213.224.63.5 (Tue, 11 Jul 2000 20:50:15 MET DST) NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 11 Jul 2000 20:50:15 MET DST Organization: Pandora - Met vlotte tred op Internet To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com DJ-Gateway: from newsgroup comp.os.msdos.djgpp Reply-To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com Robin Johnson wrote in message news:39663EE6 DOT 146B014 AT home DOT com... > Reading through the news archives, how much progress was made on porting > gcj/libgcj to DJGPP? I might be able to take up a that as a project. I've spent some time on this. There are some obvious problems: - the Java compiler isn't very DOS-friendly (the 2.95.2 release doesn't even support DOS-based zip files! (fixed in snapshot)) - networking support. Even though java.net can be disabled, some files still require networking. These can, however, be patched fairly easily (and with the DJGPP libsockets they may even be usable unchanged). - No threading (but the build is supposed to support this). With some fairly minor adjustments the library can be compiled. There are however some as-yet-undiscovered issues that prevent the result from functioning. For one thing, the interpreter (gji) doesn't work: it simply hangs or crashes. This MAY be a threading issue, or a problem with the garbage collector. Feel free to ignore this post; it's been several months since I downloaded and tried to compile a snapshot. Everything I mention above may have already been fixed. -- Hi, I'm a signature virus. plz set me as your signature and help me spread :)