Subj : GCJ + Rhino
To   : netscape.public.mozilla.jseng
From : Andy Madigan
Date : Wed Aug 25 2004 12:50 am

I've been trying to use GCJ to compile Rhino natively (so that, for
instance, a natively compiled app could expose Java APIs to a script,
which would be useful for many purposes.) I've had a few problems thus
far:
1: org.mozilla.javascript.classfile.ClassFileWriter cannot be compiled,
however, I was able to compile a shared object anyway by removing any
classes that referenced to ClassFileWriter directly.
2: GCJ-compiled apps cannot dynamically load any classes compiled by
jsc with optlevel > 0, workaround is to use optlevel 0.

While I'm fairly sure these are both problems with GCJ, I was wondering
if anyone had found a better workaround for either problem.

Note: The shared object I created is missing most of the optimizer
package, but not all of it, parts of the package (particularly
OptRuntime) are referenced by classes compiled with jsc, I found this
out when I tried to natively compile one such class (I was eventually
able to do that, BTW). I would really like to be able to get the
Optimizer working, since that would decrease the overhead of running a
script multiple times (I think).

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