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

[Sean Chou]

   That's great !

   Yes. We went into the problem when copied the image to a windows without
building
environment.


On Mon, Nov 7, 2011 at 10:36 PM, Volker Simonis <volker.simonis at gmail.com>wrote:

> 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
> >
> >
>



-- 
Best Regards,
Sean Chou
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