Problems running Swing app with latest build?

Mike Swingler swingler at apple.com
Tue Feb 14 10:39:34 PST 2012


On Feb 14, 2012, at 3:08 AM, Anthony Petrov wrote:

> On 2/13/2012 10:22 PM, Mike Swingler wrote:
>> As a general point, the JDK 7 on the Mac should not be linking against libfreetype in the first place, because it's an X11 component, and optionally installed on Mac OS X. If there isn't a bug already to this effect, I'd be more than happy to file it.
> 
> FreeType is not an X11 component, it's a font manipulation library ("a software font engine" [1]). OpenJDK requires FreeType even on MS Windows platform, so this requirement is unlikely to go away.
> 
> [1] http://www.freetype.org/freetype2/index.html

On Mac OS X, it is delivered with X11, which is an optionally installed component. If OpenJDK requires FreeType, then it needs to include it inside it's own bundle.

Regards,
Mike Swingler
Apple Inc.



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