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Re: Java
Brian D. McGrew wrote:
> Brian D. McGrew, le Mon 11 Jun 2007 10:53:03 -0700, a écrit :
>> However, I need java. There is a higher level user interface that
>> goes on top of our C/C++/X/Motif stuff that's all done in Java.
>
> Could it work with the java support of gcj?
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>
> Sadly, no, it won't work with gcj. I'm a C++ programmer, not Java; but I've been told by the guys that do the Java stuff that gcj does not properly implement the jni. I don't know how accurate it is; but we've been fighting that battle for three years now and Sun JDK has won.
>
Of course, now that Sun has open-sourced the JVM and javac
(http://openjdk.java.net/ , the current OpenJAVA roughly corresponds to
Java6 1.6_b04, I think), someone could cook up a fully Cygwin-aware
version of the Sun tools.
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