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

[Volker Simonis]

Hi Sean,

looking at your error.log I think you have a different problem:

Caused by: java.lang.UnsatisfiedLinkError: C:\Users\zhouyx\Desktop\j2sdk-image\j

re\bin\freetype.dll: Can't find dependent libraries

This means that freetype.dll was found, but another library which
freetype.dll is dependent on could not be located on the new system.

You can check with a tool like for example "DependencyWalker"
(http://www.dependencywalker.com/) on which other libraries
freetype.dll is dependent on. As far as I can see on my system, the
dependencies are not exceptional:

t:\sapjvm_dev\d046063\j2sdk-image\jre\bin\FREETYPE.DLL
|-->c:\windows\system32\KERNEL32.DLL
      |-->c:\windows\system32\NTDLL.DLL

Hope this helps,
Volker


On Tue, Nov 8, 2011 at 7:38 AM, Sean Chou <zhouyx at linux.vnet.ibm.com> wrote:
>  Hi Phil,
>     The situation I found is strange: the JDK we build works well on windows
> which
> have the building environment. Eg. machine1 and machine2 both can build
> windows
> openjdk. If I copy a jdk built on machine1 to machine2, it works well. If
> machine3
> doesn't have the build environment, it reports error about freetype.dll.
>     I haven't investigate the problem,  however the freetype.dll is there
> with awt.dll. So I guessed it was something related to freetype.dll
> installation.
>     The attachment is the error information.
> On Tue, Nov 8, 2011 at 1:19 AM, Phil Race <philip.race at oracle.com> wrote:
>>
>> 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
>>>
>>
>
>
>
> --
> Best Regards,
> Sean Chou
>
>