On Tue, 10 Mar 2026 18:45:03 GMT, Phil Race <[email protected]> wrote:

> > We don't have a headless windows build. This will just produce a headful 
> > windows build with missing symbols. That --enable-headless-only option 
> > should be rejected on windows (and Mac).
> 
> Should I change the autoconf files for rejecting it on these 2 platforms ? On 
> the other hand , having a headless-only build on Windows might make sense 
> (for container/server environments) ; for macOS it is probably less 
> interesting I guess.

Passing the build flag won't make it a headless build on windows. That would be 
a significant piece of work and there is no such thing as a headless windows OS 
(SFAIK). Systems may have no head, but windows the OS always supports it.

So I would go the autoconf route.

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PR Comment: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/30148#issuecomment-4033671153

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