Statically Linking a GCJ Application on Ubuntu Natty

Question

I'm trying to statically link a GCJ application and it looks like theres some misconfiguration somewhere. I'm just using the standard gcj installation on natty and I have both libgcj11 and libgcj11-dev installed.

My test application is:

class HelloWorldApp {
    public static void main(String[] args) {
        System.out.println("Hello World!"); // Display the string.
    }
}

I do:

gcj -static-libgcj --main=HelloWorldApp HelloWorldApp.java

then i get the following error

/usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lgcj
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status

Anyone know how to fix this?

Answer 1

Distros generally do not ship libgcj.a. Static linking does not work extremely well with gcj, anyway, mostly because not all of the class dependencies can be found -- compiled-in resources and also the use of reflection in the core library cause things to go missing at link time, unless you take special care to link them in by hand.