>> >> Is there any other, easy recommended way how to deal with this on for 8u. >> I’d like to avoid having to deal at all with JDK9 at this point. Perhaps >> someone has a correctly built 32 bit dll lying around...? > > You can just clone jdk9 and use the --with-freetype-src to have the configure > script for jdk9 build freetype for you. You can then forget about jdk9 and > point your jdk8 configure to the newly build freetype.
I really wanted to avoid this, but in the end that’s exactly what I did. As someone who usually does not build stuff on Windows, I would very much appreciate it, if someone updated the README-builds.html file/s. To provide some feedback, here’s what’s missing from my point of view: - System Setup: freetype is listed as a requirement for Linux and Solaris. But not for Windows. That’s obviously wrong. Perhaps Magnus’ hint regarding freetype and JDK9 should also be mentioned. - System Setup > Windows > Visual Studio 2010 Compilers: When using Microsoft Visual Studio C++ 2010 Express, SP1 is required!! - Build Performance Tips > Building on local disk: “[…] make sure the build directory is situated on local disk” - great advice! And how would I do that? I looked, but wasn’t able to find the switch in the README-builds.html page. Perhaps because of my own blindness. And for the JDK9 README-builds.html: - System Setup: freetype is listed as a requirement for Linux and Solaris. But not for Windows. - Configure > Configure Options: --with-freetype-src is missing (perhaps that should be the recommended option for Windows) I noted that --with-freetype-src requires msbuild.exe to be in the PATH. Perhaps that’s always the case, when you have VS2013 installed. In my case it wasn’t and I had to add it (lives in .NET framework). - Build Performance Tips > Building on local disk: see above. How do I make this happen? Thank you, -hendrik
