[news.eclipse.platform.swt] Re: building an eclipse app with gcj

[Shaun Jackman <sjackman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I found this article very helpful:
"Create native, cross-platform GUI applications, revisited"
http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/java/library/j-nativegui2/

Cheers,
Shaun


Thijs Cadier wrote:
> Has anybody had succes building a SWT application with GCJ?
> 
> I have tried a few approaches to compile the entire application (
> including icons and property files ):
> 
> 1 compile everything to .o, then link them ( problems because of the other
> files )
> 2 compile everything at once ( problems because of the other files and GCJ
> seems to be unable to read the libs if multiple files are compiled at once
> ) 3 compile .class files with javac, make a jar, let GCJ compile the jar (
> it gives errors about not being able to read some parts of the bytecode )
> 
> Could someone who has had succes compiling a complete application give
> some pointers?