I have build gcj compiler from the the GCC 3.4.4 distribution, on a PC running Linux RedHat. When I compile and run a simple java HelloWorld application, no problem. But, as my future target is an embedded application, I use the -static option of gcj, to build a new HelloWorld application, which doesn't need any shared lib on execution. The build seems correct, despite the fact that my simple HelloWorld executable has a size of 13MB ... But, when I try to run it, I have a "segmentation fault (core dumped)". With gdb 6.4, I can see the problem occurs in the _Jv_FindClass function, during the call to sys->loadClass. Has anyone already met this problem ? Thanks for your help