On Mon, 2014-10-20 at 09:04 +0100, Andrew Haley wrote:

> You have to link with the Scala library, either directly or indirectly.
> You will want to compile the library to a shared object.

That's what I thought.


> Before explaining any more, do you have experience with shared
> libraries in C and C++?

Just a tiny bit.

As far as my understanding goes, I'd first create a shared library with
something like this:

gcj -fPIC /usr/share/java/scala-library.jar -shared -o scala-library.so

and then when compiling a Scala program, I'd say:

gcj --classpath=.:/usr/share/java/scala-library.jar HelloWorld*.class
scala-library.so

But I haven't managed to create the shared library. When I attempt to
run the first command, I get something like:

scala/collection/immutable/StringLike.scala: In class
'scala.collection.immutable.StringLike$class':
scala/collection/immutable/StringLike.scala: In method
'scala.collection.immutable.StringLike
$class.replaceAllLiterally(scala.collection.immutable.StringLike,java.lang.String,java.lang.String)':
In file included from scala/collection/immutable/StringLike.scala:28:0,
                 from scala/collection/immutable/StringLike.scala:190,
                 from scala/collection/immutable/StringLike.scala:142,
		 ...
                 from scala/AnyVal.scala:7,
                 from <built-in>:3:
scala/collection/immutable/StringLike.scala:174:0: error: class
'java.util.regex.Pattern' has no method named 'quote' matching signature
'(Ljava/lang/String;)Ljava/lang/String;'
In file included from scala/collection/immutable/StringLike.scala:28:0,
                 from scala/collection/immutable/StringLike.scala:190,
                 from scala/collection/immutable/StringLike.scala:142,
		 ...


Can you please tell me how to get the shared library?


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Marko
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