building JDK6 - latest usable compiler (original) (raw)

Pete Brunet peter.brunet at oracle.com
Thu Feb 7 21:04:31 UTC 2013

On 2/7/13 2:59 PM, Tim Bell wrote:

On 02/07/13 12:18, Pete Brunet wrote:

Hi I have VS 2010 and need to build JDK6. Using my typical JDK7 set up with VS 2010 make sanity reports

../make/common/shared/Compiler-msvc.gmk:129 *** COMPILERPATH cannot be empty here. Stop. Do I need to install an older compiler (and if so where would I get it)? JDK6 is built with Microsoft Visual Studio .NET 2003 Professional for 32-bit Windows and Microsoft Platform SDK April 2005 for 64-bit Windows: http://hg.openjdk.java.net/jdk6/jdk6/raw-file/f30a5896c305/README-builds.html#msvc There were O/S requirements also: Windows 2000 SP2 for 32-bit and I believe it was Windows 2003 for 64-bit. Can you submit your builds to the sustaining JPRT queue? There are some legacy Windows build systems available there that are still used to build 6-update releases. You might be able to avoid the trouble of setting up your own legacy system. I started down the other path, but based on what you said I think that's going to be a lot more time consuming than using JPRT. I did a 7 based JPRT build for the first time a couple weeks back. Let me see if I can figure out how to do one for 6. Tim

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