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

[Sean Chou]

That's useful information !  I find the problem, when building
freetype.dll, the
default setting is "Debug"  instead of "Release", so it links MSVCR100D.dll
which only exists if visualstudio is installed.


On Tue, Nov 8, 2011 at 4:32 PM, Volker Simonis <volker.simonis at gmail.com>wrote:

> 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
> >
> >
>



-- 
Best Regards,
Sean Chou
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