Re: mxe-octave installer for 64 bit seems not check 64 bit JRE but 32 bit JRE

[Tatsuro MATSUOKA]

> From: "tmacchant

> To: John Donoghue ; "octave-maintainers
> Cc: 
> Date: 2016/4/2, Sat 22:44
> Subject: Re:mxe-octave installer for 64 bit seems not check 64 bit JRE but 32 
> bit JRE
> 
> --- john.david.donoghue wrote:
>>  On 04/01/2016 11:39 PM, suro MATSUOKA wrote:
>>  > Hello
>>  >
>>  > Before registering to the bug tracker, I would like to ask the 
> following
>>  > to avoid a duplicated post.
>>  >
>>  > I have installed 64 bit octave for windows wit installer
>>  > built and generated using mxe-octave --enable-windows64.
>>  >
>>  > At trying install to PC which has only the 64 bit JRE from the Oracle 
> site,
>>  > the Octave installer generated by mxe-octave claimed that the Java is 
> not installed.
>>  > The warning is disappeared after I install the 32 bit Oracle JRE.
>>  >
>>  > The installer generated by the mxe-octave seems to tries to check 32 
> bit JRE
>>  > regardless octave binary is 32 bit or 64 bit.
>>  >
>>  > For 64 bit binary, the installer should check the 64 bit instead of 
> the 32 bit JRE.
>>  >
>>  >
>>  > Tatsuro
>>  >
>>  Can we verify manually from the registry what the installer is reading?
>>  1. attempts to read JAVA_HOME environment variable - so within octave 
>>  getenv('JAVA_HOME')
>>  2. reads registry value from HKLM\Software\JavaSoft\Java 
> Runtime 
>>  Environment\Current Version"
>>  3. reads registry value from HKLM\Software\JavaSoft\Java 
> Runtime 
>>  Environment\XXXX\JavaHome"  (where XXXX was the version from 
> 2.)
>> 
> 
> Thanks for the reply. I will try the above if I will have a chance. Before 
> doing, l will resister this to the bug tracker because it seems not to be 
> duplicate.
>


I filed in the bug tracker.
http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?47606


Tatsuro