IcedTea-Web & Java 11

[Laurent Bourgès]

Jiri,

> For example, I hacked the Makefile to keep generating windows batch files
> to have them generated on
> > linux and fix them on my windows test machine.
> > I am not sure if I would be able to perform cross-compilation on my
> linux machine ...
>
> I hope, that crosscompialtion will not be needed.   If you built it on
> linux, and it works, it
> should work also after built on windows and vice versa.
> Yes, with bats, you could probably distribute them to final windows
> environemtns. With crosscompiled
> binaries... I never trusted them... Is even solid crosscompialtion
> linux-windows possible?
>

More obviously I just run make to build netx & launcher scripts (no plugin
at all), to obtain a minimal ITW 1.7 that I can run on win/mac/linux
(cross-platform).
It takes 2 Mb so it could be installed on top of any openjdk11 build, maybe
AdoptOpenJDK could provide such OpenJDK packages including ITW.

For now, I can make such 'complete' ITW package on my linux machine, no
need for cross-compilation at all.

/install$ tree -L 3
.
├── bin
│   ├── itweb-settings
│   ├── itweb-settings.bat
│   ├── javaws
│   ├── javaws.bat
│   ├── policyeditor
│   ├── policyeditor.bat
│   └── README
├── lib
└── share
    ├── icedtea-web
    │   ├── javaws_splash.png
    │   └── netx.jar
    ├── man
    └── pixmaps
        └── javaws.png

10 directories, 18 files

PS: Of course, having installers + better desktop integration (icons, jnlp
associations ...) on win/mac/linux would be very great ! but that's another
topic.

Laurent
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