Building from source code (original) (raw)

Mark Claassen markclaassenx at gmail.com
Thu Oct 18 07:26:58 PDT 2012

Thanks for the quick reply. Just to recap: I have JDK 7 on my machine.

It sounds like I should be using JDK8 to play with the FX sources (which are for FX8?) Is this more what I should be doing?

On Thu, Oct 18, 2012 at 10:03 AM, Kevin Rushforth < kevin.rushforth at oracle.com> wrote:

We need to update the instructions, but basically all you need is a way to locate the jfxrt.jar that matches the openjfx version you are trying to build.

For FX 8, you need to download the EA version of JDK8 at: http://jdk8.java.net/download.**html <http://jdk8.java.net/download.html> You can use JDK7 to build openjfx...just point your JFXRTHOME env variable to the JDK8 jre/lib directory. -- Kevin

Mark Claassen wrote: I was trying to go through the process of downloading the source code, and it seems the directions are a bit out of date.

The specific issue is with the developer preview binary. The instructions say to download it and unzip it. The download link ( http://www.oracle.com/**technetwork/java/javafx/**downloads/index.html<http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javafx/downloads/index.html>), goes to a page where there is nothing that can be downloaded and "unzipped". Can I use the JDK7 install I already have? Or do I need to find something else? Thanks, Mark http://openjdk.java.net/**projects/openjfx/getting-**started.html<http://openjdk.java.net/projects/openjfx/getting-started.html> - Download the latest JavaFX Developer Preview binary<http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javafx/_ _downloads/index.html<http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javafx/downloads/index.html> > - Unzip the binary and put it in ~/closed-jfx - [snip]

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