Re: [xmlvm-users] JDK Libraries

[Troy G. <tro...@gm...>]

So, are you saying that the current back-end may not be sufficient to
support cross compiling this particular class until the new back-end is
finished?  Currently, I'm more worried about the functionality more than
extra dependencies.

Thanks again!

On Wed, Oct 20, 2010 at 11:37 AM, Arno Puder <ar...@pu...> wrote:

>
> You can try, but my fear is that "transitive closure" will result in half
> of the JDK. At that point you will most likely run into deficiencies with
> the Objective C backend as well (which we don't have with the new C
> backend). Right now I am stalled with the C backend until we have sorted
> out the dependency problem.
>
> Arno
>
>
> On Oct 20, 2010, at 9:32 AM, Troy Gaines <tro...@gm...> wrote:
>
> Would it be sufficient in the meantime to just try to cross-compile
> BigInteger and all of it's transitive dependencies?  I'm using a library
> that has this dependency on BigInteger among other things.
>
> Thanks.
>
>
> On Wed, Oct 20, 2010 at 11:15 AM, Arno Puder < <ar...@pu...>
> ar...@pu...> wrote:
>
>> We pursue the idea of cross-compiling the JDK to achieve better API
>> coverage. One problem you will encounter is the dependencies within
>> JDK: if you reference one class (such as BigInteger) you inadvertently
>> pull in half the JDK because of all the dependencies. I know I have
>> saying that we are working on this for the past three months without
>> anything happening, but I hope we will make progress real soon.
>>
>> Arno
>>
>> On Oct 20, 2010, at 5:26 AM, Troy Gaines < <tro...@gm...>
>> tro...@gm...> wrote:
>>
>> I'm trying to cross-compile some code to the iPhone.  One of the classes I
>> need among others is java.math.BigInteger.  I see there is a subset of the
>> Java standard libraries already cross-compiled to Objective C.  Is the
>> recommended approach just to take the java.math.BigInteger class and
>> cross-compile it manually.  I'm trying to understand what is included vs.
>> what I need to do manually?
>>
>> Thanks!
>>
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