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: Eric Sosman Newsgroups: comp.lang.java.programmer Subject: Re: Java 8 and Windows XP? Date: Wed, 18 Jun 2014 11:43:25 -0400 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 23 Message-ID: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Injection-Date: Wed, 18 Jun 2014 15:43:28 +0000 (UTC) Injection-Info: mx05.eternal-september.org; posting-host="bd4e1cba8d8592bec5d5ed9e4537fbfd"; logging-data="19469"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX19JdnOfpBOnLqfyhHi4hz3P" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:24.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/24.6.0 In-Reply-To: Cancel-Lock: sha1:jX/Q2P62yvFcGlXmUKGo16dWvIo= Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.java.programmer:28772 On 6/18/2014 10:40 AM, Knute Johnson wrote: > 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. Quoth Wikipedia: "Java 8 is not supported on Windows XP. But as of JDK 8 update 5, it still can run under Windows XP after forced installation by directly unzipping from the installation executable." (If this procedure gives you "a message," please be sure to tell us you received "a message." Helps with diagnosis, y'know. ;) > 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? If you're compiling against 7's rt.jar and stuff, I think it should work. But if you're using 8's class libraries (even if you don't make explicit use of their new features) you may be out of luck trying to use the compiled .class files with 7. -- Eric Sosman esosman@comcast-dot-net.invalid