Windows XP: openjdk 7 b26, InstallShield issues

Igor Nekrestyanov Igor.Nekrestyanov at Sun.COM
Wed May 14 17:50:17 UTC 2008


Hi Marco,

please post your build log here.
Otherwise it is difficult to understand what exactly happened in your case.

-igor

Marco Trudel wrote:
> Hey all
>
> I'm compiling openjdk on Windows XP. I get a working jdk, despite the 
> sparse documentation. The problem is that the compilation aborts 
> somewhere around the latest steps when trying to create the 
> InstallShield setup.
> It seems that this openjdk version requires InstallShield DevStudio 9 
> which is no longer available and extremely expensive. InstallShield 
> 2008 does not work.
> So my question: Is there a way to skip this step? I actually don't 
> even want the installer and surely don't want to pay for InstallShield 
> (I was happy to see the progress from MKS to Cygwin only to find out 
> that another commercial product is required now).
>
> I tried setting BUILD_INSTALL=false, but this creates another 
> compilation error.
>
>
> thanks
> Marco




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