OpenJDK9/10 : sawindbg.dll / sawindbg.dll.manifest

[Erik Joelsson]

I don't know what the manifest file is for, but if it's in the wrong 
place I would blame jlink for messing it up.

/Erik


On 2017-11-17 00:54, Baesken, Matthias wrote:
> Hello, I noticed that  in OpenJDK 9 and 10, on 64bit Windows the sawindbg.dll.manifest
> shows up in another folder  than  the  related dll :
>
> ./images/jdk/lib/sawindbg.dll.manifest
> ./images/jdk/bin/sawindbg.dll
>
> Does anybody know why it is done this way ? I thought that usually  the manifest would be placed next to the dll ?
> (in Open JDK8 there is no sawindbg.dll.manifest  manifest file at all)
>
> Thanks, Matthias