"Oleg Khaschansky" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 08/09/2006 01:25:54 PM: > Maybe [1] will give some additional info. > It is out of the context of DRLVM discussion, but awt uses GDI+ > extensively. According to [1] GDI+ is not available on w2k. > > [1] http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en- > us/sdkintro/sdkintro/windows_xp.asp
The SWT FAQ mentions that the same issue, and recommends the following GDI+ redistributable from Microsoft: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=6a63ab9c-df12-4d41-933c-be590feaa05a&DisplayLang=en A quick look at Microsoft's support site indicates that Windows 2000 will be in extended support until 2010, so it'll be around for some time yet. So this is worth getting right. http://support.microsoft.com/lifecycle/?LN=en-us&x=18&y=15&p1=3071 IMO having a single distribution that works across OS versions and does the runtime-check to select platform specific code automatically would be easier for most users. This approach also allows you to tune for performance by detecting and leveraging knowledge about the hardware (e.g. SMP vs UP optimizations). /Graeme Graeme Johnson J9 VM Team, IBM Canada
