From: Damien MATTEI <Damien.Mattei@unice.fr>
To: Per Bothner <per@bothner.com>
Cc: Kawa mailing list <kawa@sourceware.org>
Subject: Re: kawa lib and jdk version
Date: Mon, 02 May 2016 10:22:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <201605021222.12586.Damien.Mattei@unice.fr> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5723836A.8000303@bothner.com>
Le Friday 29 April 2016 17:53:14 Per Bothner, vous avez écrit :
> On 04/29/2016 06:48 AM, Damien Mattei wrote:
>
> > i'm want to run kawa on debian server using tomcat and jdk7 , if i get
> > the binary distribution of kawa for now i have compatibility with jdk7
> > and above, but what happens if i had get the source distribution of kawa
> > and compile it on the development platform with jdk8 , will it be
> > compatible with jdk7 and the tomcat server under debian if i
> > deploy an application packaged with the kawa-2.1.jar compiled with jdk8?
>
> There are two parts to this issue:
> (1) Make sure Kawa doesn't depend on any optional Java 8 features.
> That shouldn't be a problem if you use configure+make (since in that case
> you would have to explicitly request Java 8 features), but it's a bit trickier
> if you build with Ant (because of the auto-configuration in Kawa's build.xml).
>
> (2) Make sure you build the class files for the correct version of the JVM.
> That means you need to pass -target 7 to the javac command. The following
> is believed to work:
> export JAVAC='javac -target 7'
> configure --with-java-source=7
> make
>
> The --with-java-source=7 is probably not needed, but it's a good idea to
> specify it. (One reason is the Kawa default might change.)
>
> You might have to experiment a bit, and you might run into a Kawa bug.
> (If so, let me know.)
thanks ,
i had made few attemps to work with jdk7,unfortunately it complains about a major version of 51 (my platform) instead of 52 (kawa)
so i will use jdk8 where all is ok ,it's just that where i work servers are under jdk7 but i hope it will be upgraded soon
regards,
damien
--
Damien.Mattei@unice.fr, Damien.Mattei@oca.eu, UNS / OCA / CNRS
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Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-04-29 13:48 Damien Mattei
2016-04-29 15:53 ` Per Bothner
2016-05-02 10:22 ` Damien MATTEI [this message]
2016-05-02 14:27 ` Per Bothner
2016-05-03 9:30 ` Damien MATTEI
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