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Several parties, especially from the Fedora core, Debian and Wikipedia corners, would like to make use of Batik and FOP on a Free Software tool stack. This is currently not entirely possible as both products cannot be compiled using GCC/GCJ/GNUClasspath.

Wiki MarkupMany of the free JVMs out there (see \[http://www.gnu.org/software/classpath/stories.html#jvm GNU Classpath's JVM list\]) are based on GNU Classpath. GCC/GCJ can be used to compile a Java application to native code which many people would prefer and have repeatedly asked on our mailing lists. \[http://www.ikvm.net IKVM\] could be used to run and directly interact with Batik and FOP in a .NET environment.

What are the problems?

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These are the GNU Classpath bugs that have been identified so far as needing to be resolved before Batik will work:

• Wiki Markup\[http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=29246 29246\] - Toolkit.getLockingKeyState(int) not implemented *implemented
  Status:* Patch has been supplied. \\
  

These are the GNU Classpath bugs that have been identified so far as needing to be resolved before FOP will work:

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