Building OpenJFX on clean install of CentOS 8

[Nir Lisker]

Thanks Michael.

Kevin, if these are approved I can add them to the build instructions page.

- Nir

On Sat, Oct 19, 2019 at 7:07 PM Michael Franz <mvfranz at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Just to report that I was able to get OpenJFX development setup on CentOS 8
> using the following steps:
> 0. sudo yum update
> 1. sudo yum install git bison flex pkgconfig gtk2-devel gtk3-devel
> pango-devel freetype-devel libXtst-devel java-11-openjdk-devel ant gcc-c++
> 2. sudo yum install epel-release
> 3. sudo yum config-manager --set-enabled PowerTools
> 4. sudo yum update
> 5. sudo yum install libstdc++-static
> 6. sudo alternatives --config java
> - specify Java 11
>
> There are more steps than CentOS 7, however CentOS 8 has gcc 8.2.1 so there
> is not need to manually install.
>
> Now that my two development platforms are setup, I hope to start
> contributing.
>
> Michael
>