ES2 problems on Windows.

Hi,
  I am using JavaFX 8 b102 and I have compiled ES2 (for this version)
without any problems. I use the jfxrt.jar and prism_es2.dll.
But when I run with: -Dprism.verbose=true -Dprism.order=es2,d3d,sw, I receive this:
java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: Could not initialize class com.sun.prism.es2.ES2PhongShader
What I must do to solve that !!!

Maybe download a copy of a Linux of OS X build, extract the jfxrt.jar from that and place it on the classpath such that it gets picked up after the standard windows jfxrt.jar has loaded.
I'm guessing as the Linux or OS X builds run with the es2, that the jfxrt.jar file from those builds will include the necessary compatible Java classes.
There may be some way to tweak the open-jfx build to get the jfxrt.jar built for Windows to include es2 pipepline related Java classes.
Also, I'm sure your aware, that running the es2 pipeline on Windows is not an officially supported configuration by Oracle.
I'm curious as to why you want to do this.

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