Success :) building openjdk for windows

[Igor Nekrestyanov]

> The biggest pain is to use Visual Studio.net <http://Studio.net> 2003 
> and not Visual Studio.2005 Express edition or GCC for windows or MingW 
> or some other free Compiler for windows.The idea of buying any 
> software to work on open source development is not very encouraging.
>
I agree it will be nice to build with freely available tools only.
I have vague recollection that usage of free MS compiler was evaluated n 
the past and there were some complications.
Anyway, this sounds like interesting project to explore (adapting build 
procedure to use free tools only) even without access to mercurial.

-igor