Building OpenJFX on clean install of CentOS 8

[Nir Lisker]

Added at
https://wiki.openjdk.java.net/display/OpenJFX/Building+OpenJFX#BuildingOpenJFX-CentOS8

On Sat, Oct 19, 2019 at 7:28 PM Kevin Rushforth <kevin.rushforth at oracle.com>
wrote:

> This looks fine to me. A couple of them might not be needed (PowerTools?
> epel-release? libXtst-devel? (although that probably pulls in the needed
> libX11 developer package)), but it seems a good list.
>
> -- Kevin
>
>
> On 10/19/2019 9:11 AM, Nir Lisker wrote:
> > 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
> >>
>
>