Re: Is GCJ still active?

[Joel Dice <joel.dice@gmail.com>]

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On Mon, 6 Feb 2012, 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.
>>
>> Andrew.
>
>
> So naturally, the next question then would be:
>
> Will there be any capabilities to compile java applications to native
> binaries using the OpenJDK? 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?

Avian[1] will do this well enough to run e.g. Eclipse, Tomcat, Jython, 
etc., but I haven't tested any Swing/AWT apps yet.  OpenJDK 6 is 
supported, and I've just started on a OpenJDK 7 port.

  * [1] http://oss.readytalk.com/avian/