Re: [MinGW-dvlpr] [Bulk] Re: cross gcc Re: New to list - MinGW GCC Vista debugging intention

[Hin-Tak L. <hin...@ya...>]

Mohan Embar wrote:
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> Like I said, I've been tempted to do it at times, but too scared of the results.
> Plus SWT is fine enough for my purposes.

I'd like to try it one day - since the strength of the java platform is very
much to do with the GUI. Writing 'Hello World' console applications is fine and
good, but I don't know anybody who wants to limit themselves that way.

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> I think in my 4.0 build, I remove all of the Swing and AWT classes since they are
> useless anyway.
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> In 4.3, I stopped removing the Swing and AWT classes by hand because it was too
> labor-intensive to get things to work.

I wanted to cross-compile gcj 4.x lately, mostly because gcj on linux (fedora
8) is clearly useable with all the swing/awt bells and whistles.

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> Actually, I should probably qualify that make and bash are slower and so
> building any non-trivial application is slower. Not sure if the actual compiler
> itself is slower. Sorry for the misinformation.
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 From my experience - converting haploview's jar file to native win32 (although
it doesn't work), make and bash doesn't feature since there is no(?) shell
sub-processes involved. win32 gcc under wine takes about maybe twice to 3 times
as long compared to cross gcc. I think most of the difference is wine's
overhead.

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> Ranjit has a good article here:
> 
> http://rmathew.com/articles/gcj/bldgcj.html
> 
> Unfortunately, the site seems down. If you paste the above URL in Google,
> you can view the article in Google's cache.
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Thanks for the pointer!

Hin-Tak