Jay H. Hartley writes: > I've been trying to use GCJ to ahead-of-time compile a Java app and have > encountered a runtime problem. The app uses a custom JNI library for serial > port access, and loading it is the source of my current trouble. I'm trying > to find out if the current version of GCJ can do what I want. If it does, > I'd appreciate guidance in tracking down the source of my problem. Now the > details... > > The application is intended to run on an embedded system (ARM chip, Linux > kernel 2.4.26, glibc 2.3.2), so it's a cross-compile. This seems to come up every week or two. I think your problem is due to incomplete libffi support on ARM. For some reason that I don't understand, no-one with an ARM system has contributed the patches we need to make it work. Check out the thread beginning at http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/java/2006-08/msg00032.html. Andrew.
