From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 5529 invoked by alias); 6 Feb 2012 18:49:10 -0000 Received: (qmail 5518 invoked by uid 22791); 6 Feb 2012 18:49:09 -0000 X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-6.7 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_HI,SPF_HELO_PASS,TW_GC,T_RP_MATCHES_RCVD X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from mx1.redhat.com (HELO mx1.redhat.com) (209.132.183.28) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.43rc1) with ESMTP; Mon, 06 Feb 2012 18:48:55 +0000 Received: from int-mx01.intmail.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com (int-mx01.intmail.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com [10.5.11.11]) by mx1.redhat.com (8.14.4/8.14.4) with ESMTP id q16Ims1I027260 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=OK) for ; Mon, 6 Feb 2012 13:48:54 -0500 Received: from zebedee.pink (ovpn-113-25.phx2.redhat.com [10.3.113.25]) by int-mx01.intmail.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id q16Imr9v008297; Mon, 6 Feb 2012 13:48:54 -0500 Message-ID: <4F302095.2040800@redhat.com> Date: Mon, 06 Feb 2012 18:49:00 -0000 From: Andrew Haley User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.2.24) Gecko/20111108 Fedora/3.1.16-1.fc14 Thunderbird/3.1.16 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: java@gcc.gnu.org Subject: Re: Is GCJ still active? References: <4F301943.4070809@redhat.com> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact java-help@gcc.gnu.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: java-owner@gcc.gnu.org X-SW-Source: 2012-02/txt/msg00004.txt.bz2 On 02/06/2012 06:41 PM, Harpal Grover wrote: > On Mon, Feb 6, 2012 at 1:17 PM, Andrew Haley 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.