[josm-dev] Git mirror of JOSM on GitHub

[Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason]

On Sat, Apr 24, 2010 at 11:51, jamesmikedupont at googlemail.com
<jamesmikedupont at googlemail.com> wrote:
> On Sat, Apr 24, 2010 at 7:16 AM, jamesmikedupont at googlemail.com
> <jamesmikedupont at googlemail.com> wrote:
>> Thats great, I will test build it.
>>
>> I have been dreaming last night about compiling josm with the GNU Java Compiler:
>> http://gcc.gnu.org/java/
>
> dream come true!!!!
>
> http://github.com/h4ck3rm1k3/josm/commit/2432202f867953559d973387bc28ef66acf039f7
>
> It works, I now have a gnu java compiler version of josm running, I
> removed the proxy support because that does not work with classpath.
> we might be able to implement that some other time.
> also the rounding of the division is left to do, we will see if it
> causes big problems.
>
> i  made my first commit with it
> http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/changeset/4511174
>
> http://github.com/downloads/h4ck3rm1k3/josm/josm-custom.jar

That's awesome. Nice to see some development happening with the mirror.

Doesn't Java have some macro-like system or a way to hack it with Ant
so that gcj support can be merged back in? Maybe by subclassing those
files you modified and tell ant to compile FooGCJ.java under gcj and
just Foo.java otherwise.

Also doesn't GCJ support compiling to object code instead of a .jar
via GCC? Did you try that? If so how does it compare speed/memory
wise?

Does running with GCJ also suffer from the odd little bugs everywhere
you get with OpenJDK?