Re: Games in Java?

[Dennis Payne <dulsi@identicalsoftware.com>]

> I recall seeing java plugs in gcc, and hearing something about compiling
> java source files into a native format (not JNI, but java->ELF). Anyone
> know what's going on with that? I'd imagine that would create a binary
> that behaved very much liked a threaded C++ program with rtti? Plus you
> can generate bytecode from the same source, generate a small web-based
> teaser, a bytecode jar distribution, and the binary distributions?

Yes gcc can compile java to native code.  Unfortunately they don't have
a complete class library.  I don't know what is available for the class
library but I don't think awt and swing aren't finished.

Dennis Payne
dulsi@identicalsoftware.com


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