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From: Knute Johnson <eternal@knutejohnson.com>
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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