Re: status of gcj
"Johannes Klarenbeek" <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | gmane.comp.gcc.java.devel |
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| Message-ID | <[email protected]> |
2008/9/17 David Daney <[email protected]>: > Johannes Klarenbeek wrote: >> >> 2008/9/17 David Daney <[email protected]>: >>> >>> The current (as of 4.3) version no longer generates byte code, nor >>> directly >>> compiles .java source files. Instead we use ecj (Eclipse Compiler for >>> Java) >>> to do the java->class compilation. GCJ then compiles the class files >>> (bytecode) into native code. This give us full java generics support. >> >> so that means to compile a java file from source i need to download >> the eclipse compiler for java as a seperate download.. >> > > You need a working gcj to do it. > > The configuration and build instructions for GCC tell you how to build a > working gcj. If you read them you will see where it says to run the > contrib/download_ecj script to obtain the proper ecj. i found that the ecj compiler is in java... so i need a jre environment for it to compile any java class files to java byte code (or am i doing anything wrong here). that is a little over done isn´t it? i believe that the packages are in java byte code class files, ... so could i build a native compiler then? > > An often simpler alternative is to use a system that has a pre-built gcj > installed. that is not an option, since i´m adding it to firmware linux. a small development only linux distro. > > David Daney > - johannes klarenbeek...