Hi Paolo, Am Dienstag, dem 03.02.2026 um 09:40 +0000 schrieb Paolo Enriello: > I need some information about porting NetBeans to FreeBSD. I'd like to remove > all files with the .bat, .cmd, .exe, and .dll extensions from the binary > distribution, but I'm thinking of removing some directories, especially those > for other platforms (MacOS and Windows). For example, the > `netbeans-28/ide/bin/nativeexecution` directory contains directories for each > supported platform: Linux, SunOS, MacOS, and Windows. I assume I could keep > only the Linux platform (there's no FreeBSD, so I assume Linux is used) and > delete the others (delete the directories, such as `Windows-x86`)?
I strongly suggest that you don't change the layout and contents of the NetBeans distribution, unless you know what you are doing. For example there is no reason to remove the windows launchers, as they are ignored on other platforms. Just from looking at the filetype you can't decide whether or not some functionality relies on that file to be present. For example .bat, .cmd and .dll files might be used to build installer or other components of an application. We recently had a discussion on github where the author claimed that NetBeans was broken. Turned out that his linux distribution decided to built a pseudo-JRE (a JDK with some of the contents stripped). If he had used an unmodified JDK installation, that problem would not have been present. While the intention of the distribution is good, it might be counter intuitive or even harmful. Greetings Matthias --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] For further information about the NetBeans mailing lists, visit: https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/NETBEANS/Mailing+lists
