<AWT Dev> RFR: 8254024: Enhance native libs for AWT and Swing to work with GraalVM Native Image [v3]

Tue Dec 8 12:50:12 UTC 2020

On Fri, 4 Dec 2020 12:00:56 GMT, Doug Simon <dnsimon at openjdk.org> wrote:

>> @dougxc could you please review AWT static-libs enhancement for GraalVM Native Image?
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>> @dougxc could you please review AWT static-libs enhancement for GraalVM Native Image?
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> Sorry, this needs to be reviewed by people who understand this area of the code. Maybe @mrserb can suggest someone.

@prrace I have added more information to PR description, sorry for the inconvenience. 

Regarding the use case of using AWT static libraries: with GraalVM Native image we can take a jar with some AWT/Swing application and convert it (using gcc and static libraries) to binary executable (currently only for Linux 64) and then run it without JRE.

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PR: https://git.openjdk.java.net/jdk/pull/562