Which parts of the binary blob are actually needed?

[Dan Fabulich]

Ted Neward wrote:

> Why is that? And is there someplace else one can find the t2k.dll?

The DLL *is* included in the binary plugs, but you need t2k.lib, not 
t2k.dll.  As far as I know, the .lib file is not available for download 
anywhere.

However, Dmitri suggested a workaround: it should be possible to grab the 
source code for the non-open JRL JDK 7 and build that from scratch.  That 
will generate a t2k.lib that you could use for building the OpenJDK.  I 
don't know whether that works because I don't want to contaminate the GPL 
OpenJDK with details from the JRL JDK, but someone could try it and tell 
me if it works.

It's probably best to just wait until the folks at Sun release working 
binary plugs for Windows.  However, that may not happen; instead, we may 
have to wait until the font rasterizer is fully replaced.

-Dan

>> -----Original Message-----
>> Don't forget that you can't build OpenJDK on Windows because you need
>> t2k.lib, not t2k.dll.  t2k.lib is not distributed in the Windows binary
>> plugs, so doing a build on that platform is impossible.
>>
>> http://bugs.sun.com/bugdatabase/view_bug.do?bug_id=6555215