Building Valhalla/JDK9 on Windows

[Stephen Colebourne]

I tried various combinations of freetype arguments. I just retried that
one. No difference I'm afraid.

 Cannot open source file:
'c:/Users/stephen/.babun/cygwin/e/dev/valhalla/jdk9/common/src/fixpath.c'

Stephen

On 19 January 2016 at 21:30, Ludovic HOCHET <lhochet at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hello Stephen,
> Try using the cygwin path way:
> bash configure --with-freetype-src=/cygdrive/c/apps/freetype
>
> This is what I use when building JDK9 [1].
>
> [1]
> http://lhochet.blogspot.fr/2015/05/building-java-9-on-with-visual-studio.html
>
> On 19 January 2016 at 22:08, Stephen Colebourne <scolebourne at joda.org>
> wrote:
> > I have just tried building both Valhalla and JDK9 on Windows and failed
> > with the following error during "bash configure":
> > https://java.net/projects/adoptopenjdk/pages/BuildWindows
> >
> > bash configure --with-freetype-src=c:/apps/freetype
> >
> > ...
> > checking if fixpath can be created... yes
> > checking if fixpath.exe works... no
> > Microsoft (R) C/C++ Optimizing Compiler Version 16.00.40219.01 for x64
> > Copyright (C) Microsoft Corporation.  All rights reserved.
> >
> > fixpath.c
> > c1 : fatal error C1083: Cannot open source file:
> >
> 'c:/Users/stephen/.babun/cygwin/e/dev/valhalla/jdk9/common/src/fixpath.c':
> > No such file or directory
> > configure: error: fixpath did not work!
> >
> >
> > Using Babun shell
> > Windows 7 Professional
> > Have previously successfully compiled OpenJDK (not recently), so have
> > freetype and compilers
> >
> > While it is possible that I might have out of date compilers/freetype,
> the
> > error I'm getting doesn't seem related to anything out of date.
> >
> > Any suggestions?
> > Stephen
>
>
>
> --
> Ludovic
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