Windows setting up issues and version control

Dear members,

I have been trying to set up Jogl and struggling with that. I think gluegen is a dependency of it.

The guide here does not work on Windows since rt.jar is not used in Windows as explained here.

Therefore, when I reach the "Build the source tree" part, I am trying to use the ant code in the first link above, It gives the following error: "target 1.8 does not exist in the project"

The releases I found as ".jar" files were quite old(from 2015) and they have lots of issues. I need the runtime codes, the source codes, and the Javadocs. I want to set up Jogl and start from scratch. Could you please guide me about how to install it on Windows? Is there a working guide?

Kind Regards

I remember I have been able to build with JDK 11 by linking to rt.jar from JDK 8.

However there are precompiled releases and Sven is currently working on a new one. Do you encounter any limitation with these builds?

Why not taking the JogAmp fat JAR as is? There are more recent releases here:
https://jogamp.org/deployment/archive/rc/

I couldn't understand the structure of that place as well. You are right, I may get the .jar files there but what about their source codes and javadocs? I also need them.

to build the beast - besides the updated HowToBuild docs,
you may find the build scripts useful.

they are located in <project>/make/scripts,
 - make*.sh for unixoids
 - make*.bat for windows, e.g. jogl/make/scripts/make.jogl.all.win64.bat
  - all under C:\JogAmp w/ same setting like c:\jdk-17 etc

Steps, as I do it:
- build gluegen
- build joal
- build jogl

done, at least how I did it.

Yes, you have to grab a JDK 1.8 rt.jar and place it where referenced
(or change the reference), e.g. for Windows:
  set TARGET_RT_JAR=C:\jre1.8.0_212\lib\rt.jar

Hope that helps.

~Sven

the last RC https://jogamp.org/deployment/archive/rc/v2.4.0-rc-20210111/
.. you just press 'Last modified' to sort by date on the parent to see the last one.

In this specific build release folder, you can see the mighty fat jar w/ a source zip.

~Sven