The main thing we need the newer Glibc for was the native gstreamer
stack. Our solution for FX 8, which still supports RHEL 6, was to build
glib on linux and link it into the runtime. You might be able to look at
the media Makefiles for FX 8 at
https://hg.openjdk.java.net/openjfx/8u-dev/rt , specifically, the FX 8
build changes for JDK-8199527. There might also be some changes needed
for building the glass GTK2 code, which were uncovered when we recently
backported GTK3 to FX 8. I won't be able to answer any specific
questions you might have, but maybe that will point you in the right
direction.
-- Kevin
On 4/3/2019 8:17 AM, Chris Nicholas wrote:
Hi Kevin
Thanks for your prompt response.
We were thinking about getting the code ourselves and trying to sort this
locally. Do you think this is completely out of the question? I presume
altering build scripts would not be a problem for us, but if there are any
significant, possibly architectural, changes in the software itself (that
require something RHEL 7 exclusive), then perhaps we might be barking up the
wrong tree. Can you think of anything? Off the top of your head.
Thanks
Chris
-----Original Message-----
From: Kevin Rushforth [mailto:kevin.rushfo...@oracle.com]
Sent: 03 April 2019 16:09
To: Chris Nicholas <cnicho...@ikonscience.com>; openjfx-dev@openjdk.java.net
Subject: Re: JavaFx 11 on RHEL 6
As of JDK 9, JavaFX requires RHEL 7 or later, so no, there is no support for
RHEL 6. It would be a moderate effort to add this (mostly in the build scripts
and particularly in the way the native media libraries are built). We have no
plans to add this support.
-- Kevin
On 4/3/2019 7:51 AM, Chris Nicholas wrote:
Hi. I’ve been directed to forward this query to this address by Gluon support.
Here’s the query:
Our company makes a desktop application in Java. We have invested quite heavily
in switching our application to JavaFX over the last few years. We're now
trying to switch (from Oracle Java 8) to use java 11 with openjdk and openjfx.
It all seems fine except if I want to run our application on Linux RHEL 6. Then
I get errors about unsatisfied links to do with glibc version, while trying to
initialise the graphics. We've reached out to our customers and those that run
linux are pretty much all still on RHEL 6 and have no plans to move. I've
looked about on the internet and can't find any solution to this problem. Are
there any plans for addressing this in future versions of openjfx?
Let me know if you need anything more.
