RFR: 8357625: Build should generate platform specific shaders [v3]

[Lukasz Kostyra]

On Tue, 17 Feb 2026 18:03:56 GMT, Andy Goryachev <angorya at openjdk.org> wrote:

>> build.gradle line 2785:
>> 
>>> 2783:     task initShaderDirs() {
>>> 2784:         doLast {
>>> 2785:             if (IS_WINDOWS) {
>> 
>> I suggest we create the directories all the time (I don't see any harm in having empty directories).  Otherwise, we'd need to make Eclipse config files platform specific, and I don't know how to do it.
>
> In fact, I would like a comment added here saying something like
> 
> `do not introduce platform-specific logic here for the sake of third party tools (Eclipse)`

I guess the question I have then is - _why_ these files are a part of Eclipse config files.

This is a build directory, which technically should contain only artifacts related to building JavaFX. Why would HLSL compilation artifacts be needed at all in Eclipse?

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PR Review Comment: https://git.openjdk.org/jfx/pull/2071#discussion_r2821902490