OpenJDK: using ant instead of make

[Ted Neward]

I don’t think anybody disagrees, in principle, with what you’re saying; in
reality, though, that’s just adding one more thing to the long list of TODOs
that the build team have in front of them, and I wouldn’t hold my breath
waiting for it to happen. They need to complete the move to Mercurial first,
for starters, before any kind of major surgery to the build process could
even be contemplated.

 

Now, if you wanted to take that on as a project of your own, I’m sure they’d
love the help… :-)

 

But realistically speaking, I don’t think the process is going to get much
simpler by moving to Ant; with Make you configure your settings through
environment variables, with Ant it’s through properties (either passed on
the command-line or in a .properties file), but the same variables still
need to be configured. I’m not sure switching to Ant makes it any simpler or
easier (except for building from an IDE). I know that parts of the build are
already IDE-friendly, as over on the compiler list they talk about a
NetBeans-friendly build setup that seems to be working for people. (I
haven’t tried it.)

 

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From: build-dev-bounces at openjdk.java.net
[mailto:build-dev-bounces at openjdk.java.net] On Behalf Of Alexander Schunk
Sent: Thursday, August 16, 2007 8:19 AM
To: build-dev at openjdk.java.net
Subject: OpenJDK: using ant instead of make

 

Hi,

i have tried to build openjdk on XP with the buildenv.bat used by Dan and my
settings but i am missing the freetype lib from Igor so if anyone cand send
me this lib i would feel great.

Also I think it would be easier to build openjdk on windows if we use ant
instead of make.

The first obvious advantage ist that you can integrate it into an IDE and
you only need to

run the ant script.

So besides improving the buildenv.bat i would suggest porting the make file
to an ant skript for the windows plattform and i also was playing with the
idea to set up a working environment for all XP plattforms.

Currently every one needs to set up his own build environment until has has
set the corresponding vars.

I think it should be easier to have a programm or make it automatic to set
these vars on every windows plattform. May be an installer like programm
could do it using a wizard.

- Alex

 

 

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