Path: csiph.com!v102.xanadu-bbs.net!xanadu-bbs.net!feeder.erje.net!eu.feeder.erje.net!eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Knute Johnson Newsgroups: comp.lang.java.programmer Subject: Java 8 and Windows XP? Date: Wed, 18 Jun 2014 07:40:26 -0700 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 12 Message-ID: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Injection-Date: Wed, 18 Jun 2014 14:40:26 +0000 (UTC) Injection-Info: mx05.eternal-september.org; posting-host="2236b71f2834c0b6dc6f7a2fe669e3ad"; logging-data="19381"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX19k5rw8zx2n/pgqbPixJ3me" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.3; WOW64; rv:24.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/24.6.0 Cancel-Lock: sha1:SZGp4tlExH45QbZDLkOgsN7SmHk= Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.java.programmer:28770 Anybody had a problem installing Java 8 on WinXP? I tried today to install and got a message about a missing entry point and Windows DLL. 7 installs fine but I was hoping to get everybody up to 8. The code doesn't use any features of 8 so I just compiled with 8 and used target and source 7. That should work shouldn't it? Thanks, -- Knute Johnson