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| From | Knute Johnson <eternal@knutejohnson.com> |
| Newsgroups | comp.lang.java.programmer |
| Subject | Re: Java 8 and Windows XP? |
| Date | Wed, 18 Jun 2014 09:23:07 -0700 |
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On 6/18/2014 08:43, Eric Sosman wrote: > 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. ;) Stupid Windows, you can't copy from their error dialogs and I my CRS is getting pretty bad these days. And I couldn't go back and try it again to get the message because they needed to bring their system up. >> 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. > Seems to run on the client's computer fine but I'm going to have to install the Java 7 JDK again so I can get at that rt.jar. Thanks, -- Knute Johnson
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Java 8 and Windows XP? Knute Johnson <eternal@knutejohnson.com> - 2014-06-18 07:40 -0700
Re: Java 8 and Windows XP? Eric Sosman <esosman@comcast-dot-net.invalid> - 2014-06-18 11:43 -0400
Re: Java 8 and Windows XP? Knute Johnson <eternal@knutejohnson.com> - 2014-06-18 09:23 -0700
Re: Java 8 and Windows XP? Eric Sosman <esosman@comcast-dot-net.invalid> - 2014-06-18 13:34 -0400
Re: Java 8 and Windows XP? "Qu0ll" <Qu0llSixFour@gmail.com> - 2014-06-19 08:31 +1000
Re: Java 8 and Windows XP? Knute Johnson <eternal@knutejohnson.com> - 2014-06-18 16:02 -0700
Re: Java 8 and Windows XP? Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2014-06-21 23:16 -0400
Re: Java 8 and Windows XP? Roedy Green <see_website@mindprod.com.invalid> - 2014-06-22 04:04 -0700
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