Re: Is GCJ still active?

[Andrew Haley <aph@redhat.com>]

On 02/06/2012 06:41 PM, Harpal Grover wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 6, 2012 at 1:17 PM, Andrew Haley <aph@redhat.com> 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.
> 
> 
> So naturally, the next question then would be:
> 
> Will there be any capabilities to compile java applications to native
> binaries using the OpenJDK?

Never say never, but I am not aware of any such thing.

> 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?

I'm not sure.  I suppose the key question is how much mone you are
prepared to spend, but that's probably off-topic for this list.  There
are some areas in which a precompiler like gcj is advantageous, but
they are fairly specialized.

Andrew.