On Mon, 2005-11-21 at 20:34 +0200, Spyros Stathopoulos wrote: > >When I said you need to force the library into you program, I meant by > >creating mysql-connector-java-3.1.8.a file and the linking with > >-Wl,--whole-archive,-lmysql-connector-java-3.1.8,--no-whole-archive. > > I see, but how am I supposed to create an archive .a file from the > .jar? You create .a files with ar. But, now that I think about it, you don't even need to do that. Just create a .o file... $ gcj -c -o mysql-connector-java-3.1.8.o mysql-connector-java-3.1.8.jar ...and link it into your application. AG