Thank you for your contribution! I compiled OpenJFX for RISC-V and MIPS64el platforms with reference to your patch, thereby porting our JavaFX applications to these platforms, and it worked well.
Glavo On Fri, Mar 31, 2023 at 1:59 AM John Neffenger <j...@status6.com> wrote: > On 3/30/23 10:44 AM, Kevin Rushforth wrote: > > No, I didn't see this. Yes, this seems a reasonable request. > > Actually, I was going to submit a pull request to get my patch for this > change integrated (after the reproducible builds PR is merged). I've > tested JavaFX on all six architectures for Linux: amd64, arm64, armhf, > i386, ppc64el, and even s390x! It works on all platforms except for the > software rendering on an IBM mainframe (s390x), but even that could be > fixed someday. The bug is due to the mainframe being big-endian instead > of little-endian. > > My tests of Java and JavaFX on all Linux architectures are posted here: > > Status > https://github.com/jgneff/openjdk/discussions/11 > > The Java bug on an s390x virtual machine should be fixed by now, too, > but I haven't yet had a chance to test the QEMU fix. > > John > > > On 3/30/2023 10:34 AM, Glavo wrote: > >> Did I successfully send this email to the mailing list? > >> > >> On Wed, Mar 29, 2023 at 10:18 PM Glavo <zjx001...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> > >> Hi everyone, > >> > >> Currently OpenJFX's build script asserts the CPU architecture and > >> does not allow building on unknown architectures. > >> But in fact OpenJFX is cross-platform, it can actually be built > >> and run on almost all architectures. > >> The only hurdle was the asserts in the build scripts, and John > >> made it compile on the s390x and ppc64el platforms with a simple > >> patch[1]. > >> > >> I'm working on some niche architectures (such as MIPS64el and > >> RISC-V) and I need to compile OpenJFX for them. > >> I understand the need to warn users that there may be unknown > >> issues building on these architectures, > >> and I don't have time to do regular testing to ensure that OpenJFX > >> works on these architectures. > >> But I wish it was simpler to build OpenJFX on these architectures. > >> So can we add a gradle property to have the build script skip the > >> assertion on the architecture, > >> thus allowing us to build OpenJFX on unknown architectures without > >> modifying any files? > >> > >> Glavo > >> > >> [1]: > >> > https://github.com/jgneff/openjfx/blob/candidate/snap/local/allow-armhf-i386-ppc64el-s390x.patch > >> > > > >
