On Tue, Aug 14, 2001 at 09:48:46AM -0700, Paul Mackinney wrote: | dman muttered: | > On Tue, Aug 14, 2001 at 08:49:49AM -0700, Paul Mackinney wrote: | > | > | I use 'javac' to compile .java to .class, 'java' to run .class files. | > | I've heard that gcj is only 1.0 compatible. Any know of a jdk1.3 | > | compatible compiler to create binaries? | > | > Do you mean like native binaries? If so, then no. Otherwise I use | > jikes because it is nice and fast and produces better error messages | > (IMO). | > | Yes, I meant native binaries which supposedly gcj will do but I haven't | tried because it's so obviously out of date. I'll give jikes a try.
jikes won't produce native binaries, just .class files. | Question: dselect wants to install something to give me Java VM to go | with jikes (e.g., kaffe, jdk1.1). Should I just override this and | install jikes by itself? Is there a graceful way to tell dselect that | Java VM is already installed? You could use 'dpkg --force' to override any dependency checking when installing the package. I used the j2sdk1.3 package from a blackdown mirror (UNC in particular). The package provides Java VM so I had no dependency problems. One thing to note -- jikes is a compiler only. As such you need to provide a path to classes.zip or rt.jar (depending on VM version) in the CLASSPATH or on jikes' commandline. I recommend the command line and leaving the environment empty. The CLASSPATH environment can get you into trouble. -D
