Problem with Windows build - freetype.dll: %1 is not a valid Win32 application

[Magnus Ihse Bursie]

On 2015-01-19 09:39, Mads Bondo Dydensborg wrote:
> Hi there
>
> As written about earlier, I have compiled OpenJDK on Windows 7 64 bit, using Visual Studio 2010 Express SP 1, under Cygwin. (eventually: make clean images). AFAIK, VS Express will only build a 32 bit image, and has done. A simple HelloWorld test seems to work. However, if I try to run anything graphical, I get a linker error regarding Freetype:
>
> mbd at LT01666 ~/Compile/openjdk-8-src-b132-03_mar_2014/openjdk/build/windows-x86-normal-server-release/images/j2sdk-image/demo/jfc/FileChooserDemo
> $ ../../../bin/java.exe -jar FileChooserDemo.jar
> jan. 19, 2015 8:39:41 AM FileChooserDemo main
> SEVERE: null
> java.lang.reflect.InvocationTargetException
>          at java.awt.EventQueue.invokeAndWait(EventQueue.java:1300)
>          at java.awt.EventQueue.invokeAndWait(EventQueue.java:1275)
>          at javax.swing.SwingUtilities.invokeAndWait(SwingUtilities.java:1348)
>          at FileChooserDemo.main(FileChooserDemo.java:796)
> Caused by: java.lang.UnsatisfiedLinkError: C:\apps\cygwin\home\mbd\Compile\openjdk-8-src-b132-03_mar_2014\openjdk\build\windows-x86-normal-server-release\images\j2sdk-image\jre\bin\freetype.dll: %1 is not a valid Win32 application
>          at java.lang.ClassLoader$NativeLibrary.load(Native Method)
> ....(lots of FontManager => ClassLoader$NativeLibrary stuff).
>
> I am a bit new to Windows, but checking the lib in question:
>
> mbd at LT01666 ~/Compile/openjdk-8-src-b132-03_mar_2014/openjdk/build/windows-x86-normal-server-release/images/j2sdk-image/jre/bin
> $ file freetype.dll
> freetype.dll: current ar archive
>
> mbd at LT01666 ~/Compile/openjdk-8-src-b132-03_mar_2014/openjdk/build/windows-x86-normal-server-release/images/j2sdk-image/jre/bin
> $ ldd freetype.dll
>          ntdll.dll => /cygdrive/c/windows/SysWOW64/ntdll.dll (0x77e70000)
>          kernel32.dll => /cygdrive/c/windows/syswow64/kernel32.dll (0x75900000)
>          KERNELBASE.dll => /cygdrive/c/windows/syswow64/KERNELBASE.dll (0x75a10000)
>
> I am not sure if it is 32 or 64 bit, really...
>
> As part of the build process, I had to create a copy of freetype.dll.a - this was installed in the X86 part of the Windows Program Files directory - I assumed that it was 32 bit.
>
> Any help/hints much appreciated.

Freetype on Windows has long been a frustrating source of problems.

In JDK9 there is a new configure option, --with-freetype-src, which 
helps out a lot with the problematic freetype on Windows. It just 
requires you to download the freetype source code and it will 
automatically compile a correct freetype library for use by OpenJDK.

AFAIK this patch has not been backported to JDK8, however. But if you 
can switch to JDK9 I highly recommend  it. An alternative solution might 
be to download JDK9 just to use this feature, and then point to the 
newly built freetype library using configure in JDK8.

/Magnus