need help with java gcj

[alaskian]

anyone out there have experience with gjc, compiler for java (I think). Can't find much documentation on whether my file needs to have a .jar or .java extension, also am not sure where to set my classpath. Any suggestions? Thanks.

[debiandude]

It can be in any format, jar java zip class etc... It's pretty similiar to your gcc compiler. For example say you have a small hello program with
public class Hello

to compile would be:
gcj --main=Hello -o Hello Hello.java

[debiandude]

Erm btw perhaps like I you naievely though that you can use swing and all that good stuff when you compile with gcj. You can't. Just thought perhaps you would like to know that before you deciede to dump javac.