[External] : Re: jpackage: Support building native Windows MSIs

[Alexey Semenyuk]

Armin,

I will sponsor your patch.

- Alexey

On 6/30/2025 2:04 PM, Armin Schrenk wrote:
>
> Cool. The changes can be found in 
> https://github.com/infeo/jdk/commit/77c50367e3fd7d677bfe2e805be2feafa30b0a37.
>
> Basically, the command line builder for wix3/wix4 is adjusted to set 
> the arch flag to x64, x86 or arm64 depending on return values of some 
> jdk.internal.util.Architecture::is[Architecture] methods. If the 
> architecture is not supported by the wix Version, an 
> IOException("Unsupported architecture") is thrown. I defined an 
> package private enum to filter out already unsupported architectures.
>
> @"Alexey Semenyuk" I've read the contribution guide. So, the next step 
> would be finding a Sponsor?
>
> Best regards,
>
> Armin
>
> Am Montag, Juni 30, 2025 17:59 CEST, schrieb Alexey Semenyuk 
> <alexey.semenyuk at oracle.com>:
>
>> Hi Armin,
>>
>> Your ARM64 MSI contribution/enhancement for the jpackage will be much
>> appreciated.
>>
>> - Alexey
>>
>> On 6/30/2025 10:09 AM, Armin Schrenk wrote:
>> >
>> > Hello everyone,
>> >
>> > does jpackage support building native ARM64 MSI packages? Building an
>> > jpackage MSI on Windows ARM64, the resulting package contains x64 DLLs.
>> >
>> > I looked further into the JDK code and apparently, the wix Command
>> > builder (WixPipeline.java) only supports x86 or x64  (see
>> > 
>> https://github.com/openjdk/jdk/blob/a84946dde4283fd423ef00ce3176bbe1985d7046/src/jdk.jpackage/windows/classes/jdk/jpackage/internal/WixPipeline.java#L211).
>> > According to the wix docs, aarch64 is supported since version 4.0:
>> > https://docs.firegiant.com/wix/tools/wixexe/#build
>> >
>> > I already created a patched JDK locally, but maybe this can be a
>> > contribution/enhancement for the JDK in general.
>> >
>> > Best regards,
>> >
>> > Armin Schrenk
>> >
>>
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