Is anyone able to build on Win 7 (original) (raw)

Erik Joelsson erik.joelsson at oracle.com
Fri Mar 9 08:51:31 UTC 2012

This sounds very interesting. I have no experience with MinGW/MSYS, but will most definitely start looking into it asap and see how hard it would be to get the new build compatible with it.

/Erik

On 2012-03-08 19:00, Volker Simonis wrote:

This thread will probably never end (Windows 2046 :)

So I did more test...... - I wanted to compare with MKS and the first thing I hit on was a bug in MKS's 9.4 version of cpio ("CFS# 32408--- cpio can not handle files which are ReadOnly"). And it's expensive and installation and license handling is PITA if you use several virtual machiines.. - Still couldn't find the reason why the build hangs with Cygwin 1.7.10 Finally I decided to try something new - MinGW/MSYS. And indeed - it worked, it's nearly as fast as MKS, it can use the default make which comes with the MinGW/Installation. Read the glory details at: http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/build-dev/2012-March/005729.html Please feel free to test, review and (hopfully) submit it. The changes are intentionally against the old, "traditional" build system to fix the mentioned Cygwin problems and simplify the Windows build just now. As next steps I see the following points: - integrate MinGW/MSYS with the new build system - completely remove nmake from the HotSpot build and use prallel GNU make like on Linux (I know this works and that it's faster - just have to build a OpenJDK patch) Any comments? Volker

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