Awesome, TFT Alex. I'll use that as a starting point - I have, eventually, to roll this out across the build environment here, so I need to understand it sufficiently well to do that.
Thanx again , -- Dave Pointon FIAP MBCS Now I saw, tho' too late, the folly of beginning a work before we count the cost and before we we judge rightly of our strength to go thro' with it - Robinson Crusoe On 28 October 2014 20:25, Alex Kasko <m...@alexkasko.com> wrote: > Hi Dave, > > You'll need freetype libraries (both static and dynamic) for 8 on Windows. > > You can use mine ones - https://bitbucket.org/alexkasko/share/downloads/ > freetype_2.5.3_win_x86_64.zip (and configure with > --with-freetype=path/to/freetype_2.5.3_win_x86_64) > or build freetype in VS using solution from vc2010 dir. > > > > On 10/28/2014 07:59 PM, Dave Pointon wrote: > >> Hiya Volker , >> >> I've realised (thanx entirely to you:-) that I omitted one of the most >> salient facts - I was/am attempting to build 'vanilla' jdk8-b132, so your >> very welcome offering bodes well for things for things to come ... >> >> >> Rgds , >> >> -- >> Dave Pointon FIAP MBCS >> >> Now I saw, tho' too late, the folly of beginning a work before we count >> the >> cost and before we we judge rightly of our strength to go thro' with it - >> Robinson Crusoe >> >> On 28 October 2014 19:53, Volker Simonis <volker.simo...@gmail.com> >> wrote: >> >> Hi Dave, >>> >>> if you're building jdk9 you can now us the newly introduced >>> --with-freetype-src option which was introduced with >>> https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8057538. This will build the >>> required freetype library during the configure step. All you need is to >>> download and unzip the fretype sources. >>> >>> Regards, >>> Volker >>> >>> >>> On Tuesday, October 28, 2014, Dave Pointon <point...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> >>> Hi Phil , >>>> >>>> Ah right, obviously I'm mistaking the configure step of 'checking for >>>> X11/extensions/shape.h... no' as being the first step in its' quest for >>>> X. >>>> >>>> Rgds , >>>> >>>> -- >>>> Dave Pointon FIAP MBCS >>>> >>>> Now I saw, tho' too late, the folly of beginning a work before we count >>>> the >>>> cost and before we we judge rightly of our strength to go thro' with it >>>> - >>>> Robinson Crusoe >>>> >>>> On 28 October 2014 19:28, Phil Race <philip.r...@oracle.com> wrote: >>>> >>>> It isn't searching for X11. It is searching for freetype which has no X >>>>> dependencies. >>>>> freetype is needed on all platforms. >>>>> >>>>> -phil. >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> On 10/28/2014 12:25 PM, Dave Pointon wrote: >>>>> >>>>> <snip> >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>> >>>> >>> > > -- > -Alex >
