Encoding OS and Arch into jfxrt.jar?

[Daniel Zwolenski]

That is interesting and raises some questions for maven support too. 

Can anyone shed light on what the differences are between the various jar files? Does the actual Java code change between platforms?



On 21/03/2012, at 8:22 PM, Tom Schindl <tom.schindl at bestsolution.at> wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> Well looking at the jars for Linux, Win and Mac they at least have a
> different jar size so they are at least at the moment different.
> 
> The only ones that have at least the same file size are the 32 and 64
> bit one for Windows.
> 
> Tom
> 
> Am 21.03.12 10:17, schrieb Daniel Zwolenski:
>> Hey Tom,
>> 
>> As I understand it the jar is the same on all platforms and the native files are external to the jar. 
>> 
>> Cheers,
>> Dan
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> On 21/03/2012, at 7:28 PM, Tom Schindl <tom.schindl at bestsolution.at> wrote:
>> 
>>> Hi,
>>> 
>>> Would it be possible to encode informations about the operating system
>>> and architecture into the jar's MANIFEST.MF?
>>> 
>>> This would allow tooling developers like me to find out quite easily if
>>> a given jar is compatible with the Java-Version used by the IDE and not
>>> fail at launch time later.
>>> 
>>> Another doubt i have is when packaging for multiple architectures - from
>>> the jar-size it looks like win32 and win32_64 jars are of equal size but
>>> are they really equal?
>>> 
>>> Tom
>>> 
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