jawt.h for free vm's

Thomas Fitzsimmons fitzsim@redhat.com
Tue Feb 22 14:38:48 2005


On Mon, 2005-02-07 at 18:47 +0100, Wolfgang Baer wrote:
>Hi,
>
>Mark Wielaard wrote:
>> Hi,
>> 
>> On Mon, 2005-02-07 at 15:06 +0100, Wolfgang Baer wrote:
>>>Well everything worked fine until the build process came to the awt
>>>gluecode generation. It failed because it didn't found the jawt.h file.
>>>
>>>I searched all the free vm packages (kaffe, sablevm, jamvm) but none
>>>provides such a file. Does the free vm's don't support the awt
>>>native interface ATM or do I miss something ?
>> 
>> No unfortunately we don't have a free version of that header and support
>> library yet. Thomas Fitzsimmons (CCed) has been working on this. I don't
>> know the current status though.
>> 
>> If you have some example code/programs which need this jawt support that
>> would help in making and testing a free replacement.
>
>Thanks for the answer Mark, but I am sorry I have no more example
>code/programs as already mentioned in the bug reports.
>
>For explanation: Dalibor Topic already answered my email and provided
>the following link:
>
>http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/index.php?func=detailitem&item_id=11706
>
> From there another bug report is mentioned where jogl is already
>given as an example code which uses the jawt jni stuff.
>
>http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=16305
>
>And its assigned to Thomas Fitzsimmons :-)
>I also CCed him, so he knows I have no more example code for him.
>Sorry !
>

(sorry for the late reply; this message got caught in my spam trap)

I've committed a libjawt implementation to GCC HEAD.  It will ship as
part of GCC 4.0.

Tom