>>>>> "DH" == Dave Hooper <no-brain at mindless.com> writes:
Me> However, it seems like it only works with GnuWin32, which is
Me> kind of a heavy burden to put on the user. I wonder if it works
Me> with mingw32, or whatever that thing is?
DH> Errrr... surely it works with java files? I'm a bit confused
DH> here. The user won't be __compiling__ Kaffe will s/he? For a
DH> withjava distribution, *we'll* provide the binary. We have
DH> the technology! For Win32 we just compile with Cygwin or
DH> whatever and the .exe we get out is what we put in the
DH> distribution. (That's OK by GPL). There's no burden on the
DH> user, or have I missed the point?
No, you're right, but we'd also have to redistribute all the DLLs that
go with GnuWin32 or what have you. I dunno if we could separate out
the parts of GnuWin32 that would be needed by the Kaffe port from
what's not needed. If we couldn't, that'd be like a 20Mb download for
ALL the GnuWin32 stuff.
Obviously, the right and harder thing to do is make a small little
Kaffe and a minimal set of supporting DLLs or .so's or whatever to
support it. I think this is more like what MinGW does, though.
But, you're right, the user wouldn't have to know.
~Mr. Bad
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