native libs in modules

[Kevin Rushforth]

On 4/30/2018 8:58 AM, Michael Paus wrote:
> Am 30.04.18 um 17:29 schrieb Kevin Rushforth:
>> One thing to note is that unlike the JDK build, all class files for 
>> Windows, Linux, and Mac are set up to be built (but not shipped) on 
>> all three platforms, so it might be possible to create a jar file 
>> that would be the same on all three platforms. I don't know how 
>> feasible it would be or whether that the right direction to take or not.
> If possible, I would like to see a change in this policy to not ship 
> certain fragments of the build. Especially I would like to have the 
> possibility to use a JavaFX based on OpenGL on Windows too. This would 
> make Java truly cross-platform and might offer a lot of possibilities 
> for better integration of external graphics tools like for example 
> tools based on JOGL. It might also offer the possibility to support 
> WebGL in the WebView in the future so that this gap can be closed too. 
> Am I just dreaming? What do others think?

This is somewhat tangential to the issue of how to ship the native 
libraries and platform-specific classes for each platform. While it is 
true that the prism_es2 classes and native libraries are compiled on 
Windows platforms, they aren't part of the build artifacts, and aren't 
ever run or tested at all. So it wouldn't be as simple as shipping 
something that is currently not shipped. Doing so would require a bit of 
work, not to mention a bug tail since OpenGL drivers for Windows tend to 
be buggy (especially for Intel HD). As for WebGL, it would probably make 
more sense to use ANGLE to translate to D3D on Windows than try to rely 
on OpenGL being available everywhere.

-- Kevin

> Michael