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

Phil Race philip.race at oracle.com
Mon Nov 7 17:19:21 UTC 2011


Sean,

I am not sure what you mean by "installed" - installed into \windows\system32 or installed in the JRE bin directory? But the latter is the only way its supposed to work, and the build should take the copy of freetype.dll you provide to it, and copy it to that location. At runtime, freetype is treated like any other JRE provided DLL, such as awt.dll, net.dll, etc. The difference is only at build time, since the openjdk sources don't contain the freetype sources. You need to build it separately.

-phil.

On 11/6/2011 7:28 PM, Sean Chou 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 <mailto: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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