openjdk8u stable 32bit for windows build environment

[David Holmes]

On 21/12/2016 11:41 PM, Peter Koellner wrote:
>
> Hello Volker,
>
> thanks. This is very helpful information, especially about the tests.
> I still am a bit worried about the crypto package since we require
> smartcard cryptography support to work in our applications.

Please be aware that the cryptography support in the OpenJDK is 
different to that in the Oracle JDK.

http://docs.oracle.com/javase/8/docs/technotes/guides/security/SunProviders.html

For more info you'd need to ask on security-dev.

David

> regards
>   Peter
>
>
> On Wed, 21 Dec 2016, Volker Simonis wrote:
>
>> Hi Peter,
>>
>> I can not see which version of freetype you have installed. Maybe you
>> use one which was compiled for the cygwin environment? That would
>> obviously not work in OpenJDK which is compiled with the MSVC tool
>> chain.
>>
>> I know that getting a good version of freetype has always been a
>> problem on Windows. That's why I added the configuration option
>> "--with-freetype-src" to jdk9. You just pass in the directory of the
>> freetype sources (e.g.
>> --with-freetype-src=/cygdrive/c/Software/freetype-2-5-3) and it will
>> automatically build both, the 32- and the 64-bit versions of freetype
>> during the configuration step.
>>
>> I'd suggest you clone a jdk9 repo, download the freetype sources and
>> run the configuration step as described above. Afterwards you can use
>> the newly created freetype lib for your jdk8u build (i.e.
>> --with-freetype-lib=/cygdrive/c/Software/freetype-2-5-3/lib32)
>>
>> Best regards,
>> Volker
>>
>> PS: I don't think you should worry too much about the failing 26 jtreg
>> tests. First of all you can have a look at
>> http://download.java.net/openjdk/testresults/8/testresults.html to see
>> which tests are known to fail and second some of the tests are not
>> very stable on Windows.
>>
>>
>> On Wed, Dec 21, 2016 at 10:21 AM, Alex Kashchenko
>> <akashche at redhat.com> wrote:
>>> Hi Peter,
>>>
>>> On 12/21/2016 03:13 AM, Peter Koellner wrote:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> [...]
>>>>
>>>> cygcheck puts it a bit clearer, it looks like something went wrong with
>>>> manually copying/renaming the freetype.dll file. This should
>>>> probably be
>>>> automated.
>>>> Second problem was that freetype.dll depends on zlib1.dll, which
>>>> apparently was not copied. fontmanager depends on freetype6.dll instead
>>>> of freetype.dll, not sure what that means with
>>>
>>>
>>> GZIP support in FreeType is not needed for OpenJDK, you can build it
>>> without
>>> FT_CONFIG_OPTION_USE_ZLIB option.
>>>
>>> You also may want to look how FreeType is handled in jdk9 -
>>> https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8057538
>>>
>>>>
>>>> [...]
>>>>
>>>
>>> --
>>> -Alex
>>
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