On Mon, 6 Feb 2012, 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. >> >> 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/