Re: Building Classpath under Windows

[Brian Jones]

"Andreas Karlsson" <address@hidden> writes:

> In the INSTALL document: "On Windows machines, the native libraries
> do not currently build, but the Java bytecode library will.  Gcj
> trunk is beginning to work under Cygwin.  The mingw32 version of
> jikes cannot follow symbolic links, you must use a cygwin build of
> jikes to access this limited functionality.  Is there anyone working
> with porting the native libraries of Classpath to windows?
>
> Best regards, Andreas Karlsson

I have worked on it a little in the past, but nothing I can commit to
the source tree... I was trying to merge Intel's native impl with
Classpath at one time and had to stop.  Basic ideas I have are to use
the Win32 POSIX API, which is close to what is available on UNIX in
most cases with some notable exceptions and seems to be supported via
ming32 for true Windows functionality, porting to Cygwin is also an
option if you also port a VM such as Kissme.  

AC_LINK_FILES is what you're referring to in configure.in.  We need to
update this to AC_CONFIG_LINKS and also wrap this so that when
attempting builds on Windows the directory/file is copied instead.
Cygwin supports links so of course configure creates a link when you
use Cygwin... could potentially patch autoconf's _AC_OUTPUT_LINKS to
allow configure scripts to indicate whether they want
files/directories copied instead of linked... that would be cool.

Brian
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Brian Jones <address@hidden>