Re: Is GCJ still active?
Joel Dice <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | gmane.comp.gcc.java.devel |
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| Message-ID | <[email protected]> |
On Tue, 7 Feb 2012, lucianomanzo wrote: > Hi Joel, > > Congratulations for this excellent project!! > > If I understend, it's possible to compile java code to binary code? Yes, Avian supports either JIT (just-in-time) or AOT (ahead-of-time) compilation to machine code, or a mix of both. > A SWT application runs with avian? Yes. Please direct any further questions or comments about Avian to [email protected], since they're off-topic for this list. Thanks. > > Thank you > > On 06-02-2012 16:56, Joel Dice wrote: >> On Mon, 6 Feb 2012, Harpal Grover wrote: >> >> > On Mon, Feb 6, 2012 at 1:17 PM, Andrew Haley <[email protected]> wrote: >> > > >> > > On 02/05/2012 06:33 PM, 孙波翔 wrote: >> > > >> > > > I am doing a project(open source) and need to complie some java >> > > > *.class files to *.dll and *.so files so that this files can run >> > > > without jre. >> > > > >> > > > I found there only have to tools can do it: Jet and GCJ. >> > > > >> > > > Jet is not under GPL license. And the latest release of GCJ was on >> > > > Sep >> > > > 22, 2009. I need to compile the java files and support JDK 1.7 >> > > > features. So does GCJ still active and may support JDK 1.7 in >> > > > future? >> > > >> > > gcj ahas been released several times since then. There is a little >> > > development still going on, but at present there are no plans to do >> > > a release that supports Java 1.7 features. >> > > >> > > Andrew. >> > >> > >> > So naturally, the next question then would be: >> > >> > Will there be any capabilities to compile java applications to native >> > binaries using the OpenJDK? If not, who should we contact to convey >> > the ever so popular and growing interest in being able to do this for >> > Linux, OS X and Windows? >> >> Avian[1] will do this well enough to run e.g. Eclipse, Tomcat, Jython, >> etc., but I haven't tested any Swing/AWT apps yet. OpenJDK 6 is >> supported, and I've just started on a OpenJDK 7 port. >> >> * [1] http://oss.readytalk.com/avian/ > >