[Java-gnome-developer] GCJ support for Java-GNOME

[Jeffrey M. <Jef...@Br...>]

I have just checked the changes for gcj compilation
into CVS.  This is the first major step towards
release 0.7.0 which I hope to roll out late next
week.  I anticipate much interest in this release
so any testing help over the next week would be
greatly appreciated.

In order to build the bindings with gcj native
support you must have gcj 3.0.0 or greater.  
There are new arguments to the configure scripts
that facilitate the build.  They are:

--with-gcj-compile	Compile the bindings with native
				gcj support
--with-gcj-prefix		Specify the root directory of the
				gcc tree which contains gcj.

If gcj is in your path just type

./configure --with-gcj-support

and you should be ok.

The bindings will build in the standard fashion
creating gtk.jar, gnome.jar, libGTKJava.so, and
libGNOMEJava.so.  In addition, the build process
will also create libGTKJar.so and libGNOMEJar.so.
These files contain the binary form of the java
classes in the jar files.  The build process will
also create a binary version of TestGTK and TestGNOME.

In order to compile the examples using gcj you will
need to have libgcj.jar in your CLASSPATH and execute
the following command:

gcj -fPIC -fjni -g -O -o Calculator --main=Calculator \
	-L<path to shared objects> Calculator.java -lGTKJar -lGNOMEJar

I will be adding FAQs regarding this feature.  Please
let me know if you have anything you think should be
added to the FAQ.

Thanks
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Jeffrey S. Morgan
Email: jef...@br...