Re: [Java-gnome-developer] gcj-only build [was: ANOUNCE: GNOME Platform Bindings 2.5.2]

[Luca De R. <pie...@li...>]

Il sab, 2004-01-10 alle 18:36, li...@lo... ha scritto:
> Hi,
> 
> > > So the patches to compile using only gcj or kaffe are on 
> > > 2.5.1/2.5.2, not on
> > > 0.8.2. right?
> > 
> > No this is not right.  Support for gcj and kaffe have been
> > in java-gnome for nearly two years.  If you have version 0.8.2
> > you can simply use the configure options to specify which
> > you are using.
> 
> Maybe I am not understanding the configure options correctly, or --help is not
> showing all them. What I want to acomplish:
> 
> 1. Build Java-Gnome (or at least java-gtk and java-glade packages) using only
> GCJ/GIJ, no need for another JVM/javac. So far configure allways complains it
> needs a JDK. :-(
I don't think there is actually an option to build without a VM (and a
without a java compiler, gcj excluded). Any thougths?

> 2. Then I'd try to hack java-gnome so it builds using mingw/msys, the Win32
> port of GCC and GCJ. I tried to hack the conventional build, but it proved to
> be too hard (at least for me) to reconciliate the differences betweeb
> Posix-based conventions of make, bash and so on (from msys) and Windows
> conventions from the JDK. I managed to get some results, but no simple app
> could be made to run. I hope using only GCJ will ease the Win32 port.
This will be something I'll try for sure after  I'll have my hand on new
hardware   (hopefully it will happen in about 2 weeks ;)

-- 
Luca De Rugeriis <pie...@li...>