Greetings,
On 5/28/05, T Anthony Allen <email@hidden> wrote:
> I am using Tiger. I know that gcc is distributed with it and I am
> interested in using gcj, which is the java compiler front end built
> into gcc. The gcj command is nowhere to be found on my machine, nor
> is the libgcj library that you need to link with java code compiled
> with gcj. I assume the gcj is just syntactic sugar invoking the right
> options for gcc.
First off, I don't think that's true, I think gcj is a bit more
complex than that.
> Do I have to build gcc from a distribution to get gcj and libgcj?
Probably, but check 'fink' first to see if there's one out there.
> Is
> there a reason why Apple did not include gcj with its distribution of
> gcc?
Well, if I were to speculate (and that's all we can do, here), I would
suggest that because gcj+libgcj doesn't implement the entirety of the
Java libraries, it's not considered a finished product yet. GCJ
doesn't support AWT/Swing, which is a big drawback on a UI-centric
platform. Beyond that, I think they're stuck somewhere between 1.2
and 1.4 in terms of the rest of the core libraries.
If Apple released it, I think they'd believe they have to support it
as a development environment, and since it's not really 'done' in the
sense that it's interchangable with 'javac' for doing development,
that's not likely to happen. I really do wish that gcj+libgcj would
be interchangable with 'javac', and wish I could put my code where my
desire is, but I'm tainted by early reading of src.jar (and ongoing
need as I debug into Java core classes all the time in my day job).
> Any help appreciated.
No specific Apple answers here, but a reasonable hypothesis, I think.
Good luck building it, if you try that path! I'd guess it should
work, but I haven't tried.
> Tony
-- Morgan Schweers
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