Building IcedTea-web for Windows

[Alex Kashchenko]

On 10/24/2018 05:11 PM, misterTi misterTi wrote:
> Where is the redhat build of openjdk javaws.exe coming from then?

It comes from this project - 
https://github.com/ojdkbuild/contrib_itw-launcher , it is built as a 
part of ojdkbuild MSI installer build.


> On Wed, 24 Oct 2018 at 17:12, Jiri Vanek <jvanek at redhat.com> wrote:
>>
>> On 10/24/18 5:06 PM, Alex Kashchenko wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> On 10/24/2018 03:54 PM, Jiri Vanek wrote:
>>>> We build under cygwin.
>>>>
>>>> On 10/24/18 4:48 PM, misterTi misterTi wrote:
>>>>> How to build the launcher for windows?
>>>>> I tried to use mingw with autogen and configure on windows, but
>>>>> configure says OS Mingw32 is not supported. The same, when i try to
>>>>> build for windows on linux, again using mingw compiler.
>>>>> Please help, thank you.
>>>
>>> Launcher alone can be built with "cargo build" without cygwin.
>>
>> Current native launchers are for no use:(
>> in 1.7 there are still bat launchers.  We put togehter all bits in makefile, whch is optimised for
>> unix and cygwin.
>>
>> You can use both without any make, just javac netx and sed bat files.  But some parts can be tricky
>> to do without full makefile.
>>>
>>> To build the whole installer this devkit can be used - https://github.com/akashche/itw_win_devkit.git
>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> BR, Joze
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> Jiri Vanek
>> Senior QE engineer, OpenJDK QE lead, Mgr.
>> Red Hat Czech
>> jvanek at redhat.com    M: +420775390109


-- 
-Alex