Static executables

[David Daney]

Andrea aime wrote:
> David Daney wrote:
> 
>> Andrzej Bialecki wrote:
>>
>>> Here's the procedure I followed to prepare the library JAR, and the 
>>> JNI part:
>>>
>>> # this depends on ncurses, but we're not linking now
>>> gcj -c Toolkit.c -fjni -findirect-dispatch -o Toolkit.o
>>>
>>
>> As APH said, I don't think -findirect-dispatch should be here.  As far 
>> as I know it works only with dynamic loading of gcj compiled .so 
>> files.    JNI will probably still work, but I have not tried it.
> 
> 
> Doh, this is really bad, since many libraries such as SWT (which uses
> JNI) won't compile without -findirect-dispatch. Arg, I was really hoping
> to find a way to generate small standalone executables for apps with
> a graphical interface, but it seems to be tecnically impossible.
> 

Don't take my word for it.  You could try it and see what happens.  I 
have never done it, so anything I say about it is pure speculation.

Thankfully we have been provided with a tool called gdb.  It makes 
finding the root cause of any problems that may occur utter simplicity.

David Daney