Building javacx

Building javacx

This is really very simple. You need JDK 7 and a standard C compiler. Download the source files, unpack the archive and just compile with :

javac javacx.java

Build the jar archive with ( for example ) :

jar cf javacx.jar *.class

and compile the C wrapper with whatever C compiler you like. It should compile under Linux and Windows, although at this stage it's not tested outside of Linux 64-bit using gcc and MS Windows 7 Ultimate as a VirtualBox guest on a LInux host using the Digital Mars compiler.

So something like :

gcc javacx.c -o javacx

Now just move the javacx executable to somewhere on your PATH and the jar to somewhere on your CLASSPATH. Note the -javacx:cp option is you want to leave the javacx.jar off your standard CLASSPATH.