On Mon, Nov 2, 2015 at 2:34 AM, Pedro Giffuni <p...@apache.org> wrote:
> Just to note some things related to a Win64 port: > > - In order to support win64 builds we would have to add a win64 bridge > which we currently don’t have. The process is similar to porting to a new > architecture: mail archives should have a message from Tor Lillquist who > did the LibreOffice port and had a blog post about it. > - It would also be convenient to upgrade the MSVC version we are using. > - As a side effect, most or even all extensions would have to be > recompiled. > > Since about 80% of our users depend on Microsoft Windows, and 32 bit > hardware is not exactly easy to find anymore, we would think that a win64 > port is essential but the truth is up to MS-Office 2013, Microsoft was > recommending people should use 32 bit versions of their office suite for > compatibility issues. > We should work on it, but for now I think the priority should updating > MSVC as a step for that goal. Not sure up to which point we may be able to > update it without getting into trouble for some dependencies. > > For now, perhaps we should point people to the openjdk unofficial builds: > https://github.com/alexkasko/openjdk-unofficial-builds < > https://github.com/alexkasko/openjdk-unofficial-builds> > > Cheers, > > Pedro. > > > > Oh, I didn't realize AOO still needs porting to Win64. The irony is, we'd be porting to Win64 to interoperate with Java better, yet the entire port would be wasted effort if or when we port AOO to Java. I love those unofficial OpenJDK builds ;-). Do they auto-update?
