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From: "Geir Magnusson Jr." <geir@pobox.com>
Subject: Re: [build] Downloading dependencies
Date: Wed, 27 Dec 2006 10:42:13 -0500
To: dev@harmony.apache.org


On Dec 27, 2006, at 10:36 AM, Ivanov, Alexey A wrote:

>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Geir Magnusson Jr. [mailto:geir@pobox.com]
>> Sent: Wednesday, December 27, 2006 6:26 PM
>> To: dev@harmony.apache.org
>> Subject: Re: [build] Downloading dependencies
>>
>> Wait - you can't just remove all reference to this - you need to also
>> copy from wherever into jdk/jre/bin so that things still work.
>> Otherwise, any user building the classlib and dropping in J9 (for
>> example) will have a problem.
>
> If one built classlib, there's the DLL in system32. When one will  
> run an
> application, the classlib natives will link to the DLL in system32.
>
> I see no problem here.

What if you don't build it?

>
>
> But we need to include the DLL into snapshots so that users who don't
> have the DLL are able to run application on top of Harmony.

Yes, exactly.  My point.

geir