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Windows Build Instructions: problems building betas

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      Verifying the build J2SDK 1.4 beta3 build 82 revealed the
      following problems that could be encountered by licensees:

      1) The documentation(build-win32.html) doesn't specify that ALT_JAVAWS_PATH should point to a location of the Java Web Start (javaws-1_0_1_01-win-int.exe)

      If the ALT_JAVAWS_PATH is not set, the build doesn't pass the sanity
      check and breaks.

      build-win32.html should be fixed to include the above info

      2) There're no instructions on integrating the plugin into the build.
      "gnumake all" breaks during building the "bundles" if the plugin source
      isn't installed into the j2se/ext/plugin directory.

      There should be instructions to put the plugin source into the
      j2se/ext/plugin directory for the "gnumake all" to be able to
      succeed.

      build-win32.html should be fixed to include the above info

      3) The "Win32 Build Tools and Libraries Setup" section of
      build-win32.html should include:

      InstallShield 6.3 Professional Standard Edition International
      East and West

      in order to build the bundles. Without this software, "gnumake all"
      fails.

      4) No instructions on how to build plugin

      build-win32.html should either include the plugin build instructions
      or contain a link to plugin build instructions

      5) build-win32.html says the minimum RAM requirement is 128 Mb.
      However, my NT machine with 128 Mb and 500 Mb (max) Swap file was
      freezing in the middle of the build during the javadoc cinstruction.
      I would suggest to put 256 Mb as a RAM minimum (when I upgraded my
      machine to 256 RAM, the problem went away). Javadoc eats up TOO
      MUCH memory.
       

            asommere Alan Sommerer (Inactive)
            ksoshals Kirill Soshalskiy (Inactive)
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