Interesting project -- getting gjc working on Cygwin

[Robert Collins]

What's currently missing in threading?

Rob


----- Original Message -----
From: "Mumit Khan" <khan@NanoTech.Wisc.EDU>
To: <cygwin-apps@cygwin.com>
Sent: Sunday, March 18, 2001 11:25 AM
Subject: Re: Interesting project -- getting gjc working on Cygwin


> On Sat, 17 Mar 2001, Christopher Faylor wrote:
>
> > Anyone interested in tackling the project of getting the gcj
compiler
> > fully supported under Cygwin?  I don't know what this would entail,
> > exactly.
> >
> > Maybe Mumit knows?  Mumit?
>
> The compiler should, at least in theory, work just fine under Cygwin,
but
> the problem is the runtime. It's hard to port libgcj to Cygwin
(threading
> is just one issue), and I don't know what the current status is. Jon
> Beniston <jon@sentinelware.freeserve.co.uk> was working on it, and at
one
> point had a non-threaded version ported to Cygwin [1], but his last
known
> URL http://www.cs.bris.ac.uk/~jb7216/libgcj/ seems to gone now.
>
> I don't do Java, and not familiar with the gory details on what needs
to
> be done.
>
> [1] http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/java/1999-q3/msg00240.html
>
> Mumit
>
>
>