Success :) building openjdk for windows

[Anthony Petrov]

I took some part in testing the VS2005 Express to build the JDK. So far 
there's no any major problem present except the following: 
http://bugs.sun.com/view_bug.do?bug_id=6523947
However, this RFE has a very simple workaround provided. Please try it 
and tell us about the results.

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best regards,
Anthony


On 08/17/2007 10:36 AM Igor Nekrestyanov wrote:
> 
>> 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