My windows build story

Wed Aug 8 13:15:19 UTC 2007

I also spend some time trying to find out how to to this and i do not 
know how to get it from their build system.
What i did in the end was pretty much the same as described here - 
http://freetype.freedesktop.org/wiki/FreeType_DLL, i.e.

1) add

#define  FT_EXPORT(x)       __declspec( dllexport ) x

to include\freetype\config\ftoption.h

2) execute following bat file:

set PATH=c:\windows;c:\tools;C:\WINDOWS\system32
call "c:\Progra~1\Micros~1.NET\Common7\Tools\vsvars32.bat"
gnumake setup visualc
gnumake
link /nologo /incremental:no /subsystem:windows /release /opt:ref 
/opt:icf,3 /opt:nowin98 /dll /out:objs\freetype.dll 
/implib:objs\freetype.lib .\objs\*.obj

3) You need include directory and .lib/.dll files from objs.

Optionally you may also uncomment (before executing gnumake)
 #define FT_CONFIG_OPTION_SUBPIXEL_RENDERING
in the include\freetype\config\ftoption.h.
This does not affect any build procedures but enables subpixel rendering.

-igor

Ted Neward wrote:
> Here's a question: when trying to build freetype using their download, I
> couldn't get the build there to produce a DLL import library; you obviously
> did, though. Did you do anything in particular to make that work? (I didn't
> want to bother wrestling with their .sln file because that seemed too much
> work for something that simple.)
>
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>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: build-dev-bounces at openjdk.java.net [mailto:build-dev-
>> bounces at openjdk.java.net] On Behalf Of Igor Nekrestyanov
>> Sent: Monday, August 06, 2007 2:47 AM
>> To: build-dev at openjdk.java.net
>> Subject: My windows build story
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I tried to build openjdk on windows (WinXP) using home PC and following
>> instructions from openjdk.dev.java.net.
>> I was able to do it. There were few issues though (because we rarely
>> use
>> cygwin for internal builds).
>>
>> Below is brief story of how i did it. It might be incomplete because i
>> am recovering it from the notes.
>> I will double check this tonight with full clean build but it will be
>> nice if someone else can try to repeat it.
>>
>> 1) Latest cygwin.
>>     In addition to list from README-builds.html i also installed
>> zip/unzip packages.
>>
>>     I think i have installed cygwin in default mode, i.e. using
>> Unix/binary default text file type.
>>     However, this did not help fully (see item 5).
>>
>> 2) Downgraded make to 3.80
>>
>>     Download from
>> http://cygwin.paracoda.com/release/make/make-3.80-1.tar.bz2
>>
>>   cd /
>>   tar xjf /cygdrive/c/where-your-download-is/make-3.80-1.tar.bz2
>>   bin/make.exe --version
>>
>>   GNU Make 3.80
>>   Copyright (C) 2002  Free Software Foundation, Inc.
>>
>> 3) Here is my buildenv.bat.
>>
>>    Note: avoid use /cygdrive/c paths because it will fool VC compiler
>>          (cl will not resolve them properly, e.g. will not find header
>> files)
>>
>> =================================================
>>
>> rem Minimize hidden environment differences
>> set
>> PATH=C:\WINDOWS\system32;C:\WINDOWS;C:\WINDOWS\System32\Wbem;c:\tools\c
>> ygwin\bin
>> set LD_LIBRARY_PATH=
>> set CLASSPATH=
>> set JAVA_HOME=
>>
>> set ALT_BOOTDIR=c:/tools/jdk70b13
>> set ALT_OUTPUTDIR=c:/tmp/openjdk-build
>> set ALT_BINARY_PLUGS_PATH=c:/tools/bplugs/b17/openjdk-binary-plugs
>>
>> rem not mentioned in the README-builds.html? (place hotspot VM comes
>> from)
>> rem TODO: try to point to openjdk vm
>> set ALT_JDK_IMPORT_PATH=c:/tools/bplugs/jdk1.7.0
>>
>> set ALT_DXSDK_PATH=c:/Tools/dxsdk
>>
>> set VC=c:/Progra~1/Micros~1.NET
>> set ALT_COMPILER_PATH=%VC%/VC7/Bin
>> set ALT_MSDEVTOOLS_PATH=%VC%/Common7/Tools/Bin
>> set ALT_MSVCR71_DLL_PATH=%VC%/SDK/v1.1/Bin
>>
>> set ALT_FREETYPE_LIB_PATH=c:/tools/freetype/windows/freetype-i586/lib
>> set ALT_FREETYPE_HEADERS_PATH=c:/tools/freetype/windows/freetype-
>> i586/include
>>
>> rem NB: not documented? will be removed in b18?
>> http://bugs.sun.com/bugdatabase/view_bug.do?bug_id=6332635
>> rem unicows.dll/unicows.lib are available on the web.
>> rem E.g.
>> http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=73BA7BD7-ED06-
>> 4F0D-80A4-2A7EEAEE17E2&displaylang=en
>> set ALT_UNICOWS_LIB_PATH=c:/tools/devtools/MSLU
>> set ALT_UNICOWS_DLL_PATH=c:/tools/devtools/MSLU
>>
>> rem bug in the makefiles: should be set prior to freetypecheck.
>> rem TODO: file it
>> set OPENJDK=true
>>
>> call c:\Progra~1\Micros~1.NET\Common7\Tools\vsvars32.bat
>>
>> bash
>> =============================================
>>
>> 4) technically further build is just
>>     buildenv.bat
>>     cd control/make;
>>     make
>>
>> 5) Sanity check passes, hotspot build without any problems.
>>     j2se build failed in the make/java/java - LocaleDataMetaInfo.java
>> does not compile
>>
>>     The reason was that string literals contained bunch of \r
>> characters.
>>     These were introduced by cygwin awk. I guess because it uses text
>> mode (at least for output).
>>
>>     I am still not fully sure what is proper fix for this and whether
>> this is bug in cygwin
>>     (Assuming i chosed Unix/binary during cygwin install process).
>>
>>     My workaround was to edit j2se\make\java\java\localegen.sh and
>> replace
>>     localelist=`$NAWK -F$1_ '{print $2}' $2 | sort`
>> with
>>     localelist=`$NAWK -v BINMODE=w -F$1_ '{print $2}' $2 | sort`
>>
>> 6) removed LocaleDataMetaInfo.java from gensrc dir and restarted build.
>>     Build finished without new problems and at least java -jar
>> Font2DTest.jar works.
>>
>> Any volunteers to follow these instructions?
>>
>> Important note:
>>   I know that cygwin builds on at least two Vista systems were failing
>> in random places because of some
>> cygwin bugs (shell fails reporting failure to allocate memory or
>> something else).  Failures are random and build will process on
>> restart
>> of make after failure.
>> I do not know if it is possible to get working build subsequently
>> restarting make.
>> I also do not know if these problems were addressed in cygwin or
>> perhaps
>> specific to these particular Vista systems.
>> But I suggest to start with WinXP build first.
>>
>> -igor
>>
>> p.s.
>>    if you need freetype binary to try this - i can provide my build of
>> it. Just drop me personal request.
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