JavaFX exe bundling for x86 windows systems

Question

usually I deploy my Java apps as a bundle which contains the JVM, so there's no need to install a JVM on the system.
Btw: This is no jnlp applet, this is a normal Swing Application.
I did this using ant's fx:deploy. This already works for 64bit systems. My problem is, that I want to deploy this application to a 32bit system and don't get it to work.

Here's what I did:
I've set up a clean Windows 7 (32bit) instance and installed a 32bit JVM. Now i ran my ant script to build a bundled Java app and it built a App.exe.
But when I tried to start this exe by double clicking, I get the following message box

If I click OK, I get another message box

After this the app is terminated.
I did not find anything searching the web relating to bundling for 32/64 bit systems.
So I would be very glad if someone can point me in the right direction.
Many thanks in advance!
Greetings, -chris-

Answer 1

Looks like a known bug fixed for an upcoming JavaFX version (currently known as 2.2.40):

• RT-25715 The Windows launcher generated by the packager fails to load msvcr100.dll on 32-bit OS
• RT-22610 .exe created by fx:deploy can't be executed due to missing msvcr100.dll

On the bug case, the user mentions a work-around:

If I give a try to the workaround documented in RT-22610, which is to copy runtime\jre\bin\msvcr100.dll side to my application's launcher binary, it fixes it.

I think the bug is fixed in JDK 8, so another possible work-around is to download a JDK 8 early access release and use the packaging tools from there to package a Java 7 application (though I have never tried that and am not sure if it would work).

Answer 2

Just a small modification to @jewelsea's Fix:

copying msvcr100.dll into the app/ folder instead putting it right next to the exe also works, and at least it is somewhat hidden away then.