Posted by Dolda2000 on Dec 01, 2023; 8:16pm
URL: https://forum.jogamp.org/32-bit-Windows-natives-tp4043189p4043192.html

gouessej wrote

According to Sven, 32-bit Windows libraries will be built anew for JOGL 2.6.0 but we won't be able to test them.

Cool, thanks! I'm suire I'll be able to test them.

gouessej wrote

In my humble opinion, you shouldn't rely on a JRE installed on the system, you can bundle a JRE with your software in order to use a 64-bit JRE on systems supporting it.

I understand that point of view, but I very much appreciate having one single, cross-platform download (in the form of a Jar file). I also appreciate that download being less than 100 MB.

gouessej wrote

Java itself will drop support of 32-bit JDK and JRE, some modules don't support 32-bit architectures anyway (java.foreign) and sticking to an obsolete version of Java is a bad idea for obvious security reasons. You'll have to convince your end users to buy more modern hardware, it's unavoidable.

I'm aware of that, but I'm not sure that will become what is distributed on java.com any time soon. :)

gouessej wrote

You'll have to convince your end users to buy more modern hardware, it's unavoidable.

Just FYI, it's not about the hardware, it's just that the JRE itself is the 32-bit variant, running on modern hardware. Again, because that's what java.com sometimes distributes by default.