Successfully building 32- and 64-bit OpenJDK 8 on WinXP/64bit with free tools only (original) (raw)

Volker Simonis volker.simonis at gmail.com
Mon Nov 7 14:36:24 UTC 2011

Hi Sean,

for me it seems to work!

I've just copied the created j2sdk-image directory to a Win2003 machine and run the demo\jfc\Font2DTest\Font2DTest.jar demo without any problems. As far as I can see, the "freetype.dll" is available within the JDK-image at j2sdk-image\jre\bin\freetype.dll.

Had you build the images and copied these images to the new host when you run into the problems?

Regards, Volker

On Mon, Nov 7, 2011 at 4:28 AM, Sean Chou <zhouyx at linux.vnet.ibm.com> wrote:

Hi Volker, I would like to know have you tried to run gui application with the build on another windows machine which doesn't have freetype.dll installed ?  I had built jdk on windows but found that it can run gui applications in the machine built it, but cann't run gui application in machines without freetype installed.

On Sat, Oct 29, 2011 at 2:19 AM, Volker Simonis <volker.simonis at gmail.com> wrote:

Hi, I've put together a short description on how to build both, a 64- and a 32-bit version of OpenJDK 8 on a plain, vanilla WindowsXP 64-bit operating system using only free (as in free beer) tools:

http://weblogs.java.net/blog/simonis/archive/2011/10/28/yaojowbi-yet-another-openjdk-windows-build-instruction It seems as if  it is not that hard anymore nowadays:) Regards, Volker -- Best Regards, Sean Chou

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