installing JDK8 on Windows XP - advapi32 dll error

Question

I downloaded JDK8 build b121 and while trying to install I'm getting the following error:

the procedure entry point RegDeleteKeyExA could not be located in the dynamic link library ADVAPI32.dll

The operating system is Windows XP, Version 2002 Service Pack 3, 32-bit.

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Oracle has announced fix for Windows XP installation error  Oracle has decided to fix Windows XP installation  As of the JRE 8u25 release in 10 15 2014 the code of the installer has been changes so that installation on Windows XP is again possible    However  this does not mean that Oracle is continuing to support Windows XP  They make no guarantee about current and future releases of JRE8 being compatible with Windows XP  It looks like it s a run at your own risk kind of thing   See the Oracle blog post here   You can get the latest JRE8 right off the Oracle downloads site

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With JRE 8 on XP there is another way - to use MSI to deploy package.

Install JRE 8 x86 on a PC with supported OS
Copy c:\Users[USER]\AppData\LocalLow\Sun\Java\jre1.8.0\jre1.8.0.msi and Data1.cab to XP PC and run jre1.8.0.msi

or (silent way, usable in batch file etc..)

for %%I in ("*.msi") do if exist "%%I" msiexec.exe /i %%I /qn EULA=0 SKIPLICENSE=1 PROG=0 ENDDIALOG=0

User · Answer

This happens because Oracle dropped support for Windows XP  which doesn t have RegDeleteKeyExA used by the installer in its ADVAPI32 DLL by the way  as described in http   mail openjdk java net pipermail openjfx-dev 2013-July 009005 html  Yet while the official support for XP has ended  the Java binaries are still  as of Java 8u20 EA b05 at least  XP-compatible - only the installer isn t     Because of that  the solution is actually quite easy    get 7-Zip  or any other good unpacker   unpack the distribution  exe manually  it has one  zip file inside of it  tools zip   extract it too  use unpack200 from JDK8 to unpack all  pack files to  jar files  older unpacks won t work properly   JAVA HOME environment variable should be set to your Java unpack root  e g   C  Program Files Java jdk8  - you can specify it implicitly by e g   SET JAVA HOME C  Program Files Java jdk8    Unpack all files with a single command  in batch file    FOR  R   f IN    pack  DO   JAVA HOME  bin unpack200 exe  -r -v    f      pf   nf jar   Unpack all files with a single command  command line from JRE root    FOR  R  f IN    pack  DO  bin unpack200 exe  -r -v   f     pf  nf jar   Unpack by manually locating the files and unpacking them one-by-one    JAVA HOME  bin unpack200 -r packname pack packname jar    where packname is for example rt point the tool you want to use  e g  Netbeans  to the  JAVA HOME  and you re good to go    Note  you probably shouldn t do this just to use Java 8 in your web browser or for any similar reason  installing JRE 8 comes to mind   security flaws in early updates of major Java version releases are  mind me  legendary  and adding to that no real support for neither XP nor Java 8 on XP only makes matters much worse  Not to mention you usually don t need Java in your browser  see e g  http   nakedsecurity sophos com 2013 01 15 disable-java-browsers-homeland-security  - the topic is already covered on many pages  just Google it if you require further info   In any case  AFAIK the only thing required to apply this procedure to JRE is to change some of the paths specified above from  bin  to  lib   the file placement in installer directory tree is a bit different  - yet I strongly advise against doing it   See also  How can I get the latest JRE   JDK as a zip file rather than EXE or MSI installer   JRE 1 7 - java version - returns  java lang NoClassDefFoundError  java lang Object

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There is also an alternate solution for those who aren't afraid of using hex editors (e.g. XVI32) [thanks to Trevor for this]: in the unpacked ¹ installer executable (jdk-8uXX-windows-i586.exe in case of JDK) simply replace all occurrences of RegDeleteKeyExA (the name of API found in "new" ADVAPI32.DLL) with RegDeleteKeyA (legacy API name), followed by two hex '00's (to preserve padding/segmentation boundaries). The installer will complain about unsupported Windows version, but will work nevertheless.

For reference, the raw hex strings will be:

52 65 67 44 65 6C 65 74 65 4B 65 79 45 78 41

replaced with

52 65 67 44 65 6C 65 74 65 4B 65 79 41 00 00

Note: this procedure applies to both offline (standalone) and online (downloader) package.

^{1: some newer installer versions are packed with UPX - you'd need to unpack them first, otherwise you simply won't be able to find the hex string required}

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