Re: Java 1.2.9

[Philip Nienhuis]

Markus Bergholz wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 4, 2014 at 1:59 PM, Philip Nienhuis <address@hidden
> <mailto:address@hidden>> wrote:
>
>     Andreas Weber-4 wrote
>      > Am 04.09.2014 09:45, schrieb bologeo:
>      >> Hello I try to install java pkg 1.2.9 on octave 3.8.2 (on
>     windows 7 32
>      >> bit).
>      >
>      > I never used Java with Octave on Windows but I think nowadays Octave
>      > 3.8.2 can be built with --enable-java and therefore there is no
>     need for
>      > the octave forge "java" package. I don't even know if java 1.2.9
>     would
>      > work with a current octave 3.8.2.
>      >
>      > Please correct me if this is wrong.
>
>     Entirely true.
>     You cannot install the OF Java package in Octave 3.8.x, nor expect it to
>     work properly.   Period.
>
>     The Java package has been integrated into Octave-3.8.+, and in the
>     course of
>     that a lot of stuff has changed so that the OF package is simply
>     incompatible.
>
>     You'd have to wait until an "official" 3.8.x binary for Windows is
>     released
>     (some time, some day)
>
> or very soon ;)
>
>     to be able to use Java. Or revert to Octave-3.6.4.
>     Or you can even build Octave-3.8.x yourself, with Java support - see the
>     wiki under "MXE builds".
>
> well, the wiki page aboud mxe builds (Windows Installer) loses no words
> about java.

True, but the MXE build process is fairly robust - on my Linux build 
boxes (cross-compiling) it found the required JAVA JDK w/o any problems. 
On Windows (native build) it's even easier (but native MXE builds take 
ages).

> finally I've did new builds  with enable-java and with/without large
> indexing support.

AFAICS the latter do work fine generally but do have some issues I'm 
looking into these days (as far as I can that is). I'll put a summary on 
the task tracker later on.
Especially with Java there are few more sneaky gotchas with the 64-bit 
builds. I'll add it to the wiki when I get time. Or maybe you can put it 
in a README with your builds - I'll mail it to you privately.

>     What is it you want to do with Java?
>
> Good point. What the hell people want to do with jave? :)

Yeah..... sometimes it is hard to avoid ;-)

Philip