In message <aanlktimrqnftvsy0m6hrr3uuqizz8hf-il_flvcba...@mail.gmail.com>, Antony Miguel writes: > > Hi, > > I apologise in advance if this is not the appropriate category, I'm > not sure exactly where the issue would be here. > > Today I downloaded the latest stable builds of Harmony (5.0 r946978 > and 6.0 r946981) and ran them on Windows 7. In both cases I got: > > " > Windows 6.1 is not supported > HMYEXEL062E Internal VM error: Failed to create Java VM > FAILED to invoked JVM. > " > > I searched around and all I could find was this: > > http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/harmony-dev/200711.mbox/%3Cc3755b3a0 > 711140205o566023as6c78a56407d81...@mail.gmail.com%3e > > this was from 2007 and referred to Vista, the stable builds are from > May 2010 and my issue is on Windows 7, however looking at the latest > version of the bit of code the above bug mentions (vm_init.cpp) it > seems it is perhaps just erroring because windows 7 isn't specifically > listed as a supported platform... > > if((osvi.dwMajorVersion == 4 && osvi.dwMinorVersion == 0) || // NT 4.0 > (osvi.dwMajorVersion == 5 && osvi.dwMinorVersion == 0) || // > Windows 2000 > (osvi.dwMajorVersion == 5 && osvi.dwMinorVersion == 1) || // Windows > XP > (osvi.dwMajorVersion == 5 && osvi.dwMinorVersion == 2) || // > Windows.NET > (osvi.dwMajorVersion == 6 && osvi.dwMinorVersion == 0)) { // > Windows Vista > return JNI_OK; > } > printf("Windows %d.%d is not supported\n", osvi.dwMajorVersion, > osvi.dwMinorVersion); > return JNI_ERR; > > > It seems this error is occurring just because the above code tries > to detect specific versions rather than minimum versions (as was > suggested in the post back in 2007), having said that Windows 7 has > been out for almost 12 months... has it been left out specifically > because there are issues on Windows 7 which mean Harmony doesn't work > on it? > > If not then wouldn't it be a good idea to change the above code > to let the JVM run and *try* to work on versions later than those > specifically listed (given that I would imagine the vast majority of > JVM features will work on subsequent Windows versions)? or at least > allow the user to specify a command line switch to not just exit? As > it stands, it seems that if someone tries to use Harmony on an updated > version of windows that hasn't been specifically hard coded into the > above list it will just fail whether it needs to or not? > > Thanks > Antony
I guess none of the current developers have access to windows 7 systems. I certainly don't. Since Michael suggests that this works, I've update the code at r958711. Let me know if that helps. Regards, Mark.
