Building on Windoze (64 bit)

[Dave Pointon]

Awesome, TFT Alex.

I'll use that as a starting point - I have, eventually, to roll this out
across the build environment here, so I need to understand it sufficiently
well to do that.

Thanx again ,

--
Dave Pointon FIAP MBCS

Now I saw, tho' too late, the folly of beginning a work before we count the
cost and before we we judge rightly of our strength to go thro' with it -
Robinson Crusoe

On 28 October 2014 20:25, Alex Kasko <mail at alexkasko.com> wrote:

> Hi Dave,
>
> You'll need freetype libraries (both static and dynamic) for 8 on Windows.
>
> You can use mine ones - https://bitbucket.org/alexkasko/share/downloads/
> freetype_2.5.3_win_x86_64.zip (and configure with --with-freetype=path/to/freetype_2.5.3_win_x86_64)
> or build freetype in VS using solution from vc2010 dir.
>
>
>
> On 10/28/2014 07:59 PM, Dave Pointon wrote:
>
>> Hiya Volker ,
>>
>> I've realised (thanx entirely to you:-) that I omitted one of the most
>> salient facts - I was/am attempting to build 'vanilla' jdk8-b132, so your
>> very welcome offering bodes well for things for things to come ...
>>
>>
>> Rgds ,
>>
>> --
>> Dave Pointon FIAP MBCS
>>
>> Now I saw, tho' too late, the folly of beginning a work before we count
>> the
>> cost and before we we judge rightly of our strength to go thro' with it -
>> Robinson Crusoe
>>
>> On 28 October 2014 19:53, Volker Simonis <volker.simonis at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>  Hi Dave,
>>>
>>> if you're building jdk9 you can now us the newly introduced
>>> --with-freetype-src option which was introduced with
>>> https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8057538. This will build the
>>> required freetype library during the configure step. All you need is to
>>> download and unzip the fretype sources.
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>> Volker
>>>
>>>
>>> On Tuesday, October 28, 2014, Dave Pointon <pointo1d at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>  Hi Phil ,
>>>>
>>>> Ah right, obviously I'm mistaking the configure step of 'checking for
>>>> X11/extensions/shape.h... no' as being the first step in its' quest for
>>>> X.
>>>>
>>>> ​Rgds ,​
>>>>
>>>> --
>>>> Dave Pointon FIAP MBCS
>>>>
>>>> Now I saw, tho' too late, the folly of beginning a work before we count
>>>> the
>>>> cost and before we we judge rightly of our strength to go thro' with it
>>>> -
>>>> Robinson Crusoe
>>>>
>>>> On 28 October 2014 19:28, Phil Race <philip.race at oracle.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>  It isn't searching for X11. It is searching for freetype which has no X
>>>>> dependencies.
>>>>> freetype is needed on all platforms.
>>>>>
>>>>> -phil.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> On 10/28/2014 12:25 PM, Dave Pointon wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>  ​<snip>​
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>
> --
> -Alex
>