Ricardo Wurmus <ricardo.wur...@mdc-berlin.de> skribis: > GCJ unfortunately only implements Java 1.5 (and that only works because > they use a prebuilt binary of the Eclipse compiler since 2007). Later > JDKs demand a compiler for Java 1.6+. > > It would be nice if GCJ were updated to support 1.6. The latest version > of GNU Classpath already contains some support for 1.6 APIs, but is > incomplete compared to OpenJDK6:
Unfortunately GCJ never really took off and the company that funded its development eventually dropped the ball. It doesn’t receive much beyond casual build fixes nowadays. Ludo’.
