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[javaCompiler-users] Praise and encouragement

[Jim K. <Ka...@In...>]

Marco

Great work - really appreciated!
I have just discovered you fantastic program; please keep updating it.

The only thing I don't understand is why doesn't gnu-classpath (i.e. swing/=
awt) work on win32, I thought that this was one of their goals and that thi=
s was possible using gtk widgets (or something)?

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Re: [javaCompiler-users] Praise and encouragement

[Marco T. <mt...@gm...>]

Jim Kay wrote:
> Marco
> 
> Great work - really appreciated!
> I have just discovered you fantastic program; please keep updating it.
> 
> The only thing I don't understand is why doesn't gnu-classpath (i.e. 
> swing/awt) work on win32, I thought that this was one of their goals and 
> that this was possible using gtk widgets (or something)?

I don't know if it's possible at all. A main GNU classpath developer 
told me that no one tried so far. I heard something that someone built 
the QT peer once for windows, but I'm only interested in GTK.

Anyway, the problem is more that we use GCJ, not GNU classpath. GCJ 
currently lacks active windows or static build maintainers. That's why 
GNU classpath AWT/Swing doesn't event work for static compiled GCJ on 
linux. Recently I managed to get it working anyway, so JavaCompiler 0.9 
will at least provide GNU classpath AWT/Swing for linux.
As for windows, it is pretty high on my todo list, but - for my own 
needs - there are more important things like serialisation and 
javax.crypto to get working right now.

But you're invited to provide the cross-compiling steps to build the 
gtkpeer for windows ;-)


Marco