Windows Installation Instructions, All DLL Files Missing

[Kevin Rushforth]

That shouldn't be necessary. It's a better workaround than setting the 
PATH env variable to be sure, but there is some underlying problem that 
isn't yet understood.

-- Kevin

On 4/20/2020 8:13 AM, David Grieve wrote:
> Set  -Djava.library.path= C:\Program Files\Java\javafx-sdk-14\bin
>
> For the jlink question, look at jmod. You'll use jmod to bundle up the dll's and whatever else you need, then jlink to create the custom runtime.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: openjfx-dev <openjfx-dev-bounces at openjdk.java.net> On Behalf Of Christopher Miles
> Sent: Friday, April 17, 2020 2:56 PM
> To: openjfx-dev at openjdk.java.net
> Subject: [EXTERNAL] Windows Installation Instructions, All DLL Files Missing
>
> I manage a project[0]  that leverages JavaFX. It's been a while since I've worked on this project, almost two years. At that time JavaFX was bundled with the Java runtime from Oracle. The few customers I had would simply run the application from the bundled launcher and as long as they had Java installed, it would work.
>
> It's time for me to add some features to the project, I am now using OpenJDK 14.0.1 and I installed the OpenJavaFX package and followed the instructions[1] from the following URL:
>
> https://openjfx.io/openjfx-docs/#install-javafx
>
> I am on Windows and followed the instructions for that platform.
> Unfortunately, things didn't really work. The error was as follows:
>
> Graphics Device initialization failed for : d3d, sw Error initializing
> QuantumRenderer: no suitable pipeline found java.lang.RuntimeException:
> java.lang.RuntimeException: Error initializing QuantumRend erer: no suitable pipeline found at javafx.graphics/com.sun.javafx.tk.quantum.QuantumRenderer.getInstance(Unkno
> wn Source)
>
> I fussed with this and that but nothing made a difference. Eventually I tried adding the "bin" directory from the JavaFX distribution to my path. This is the entry I added to my global PATH variable:
>
> C:\Program Files\Java\javafx-sdk-14\bin
>
> Is this the right way to do this and, if so, why isn't this included in the directions? Is this a Windows specific issue?
>
> Also, what impact does this have on distribution of applications?
>
> Looking at the "Runtime Images" instructions, it looks like the same issues will be present. Those instructions use `jlink` to point to the JavaFX libraries and the JAVAFX modules (distributed in another package) but also leave off references to the DLL files in the "bin" directory. I am worried that I will need to have people manually install the OpenJavaFX distribution and add the "bin" directory to their path in order to run my application. Please say it's not so!
>
> Any help or pointers to additional documentation would be very much appreciated! I have made it over the bumps and can now continue development of my application, my next concern is distributing it to customers.
>
> --
> Miles
>
> [0]: https://github.com/cmiles74/xmltool
> [1]: https://openjfx.io/openjfx-docs/#install-javafx