problems with freetype.dll, jdk 8 and windows

[Hendrik Schreiber]

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>> BTW—Something that puzzles me but probably has a straight forward explanation: Why is there no freetype.dll in the pre-built JDKs (either 8 or 9)? Shouldn’t that be in there somewhere? I was thinking that would be a great source for a correctly built binary lib..
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> If by "pre-built" you mean the Oracle JDKs, they don't use/require freetype - only OpenJDK does.

Ah! Thanks, David, for pointing this out. I was not aware of it.

-hendrik