State of the build on Windows?

[Dan Fabulich]

Ted Neward wrote:

> I get some conflicting input regarding the state of the build on a Windows
> box. Kelly’s blog of May 2007 implies that it’s broken; is that still the
> case?

Yes, it's still broken.  We're missing a critical file (t2k.lib) from the 
binary plugs that makes doing the build impossible.

http://bugs.sun.com/bugdatabase/view_bug.do?bug_id=6555215

Sadly, all of the engineering work has already been done to fix the build, 
but adding that file would require legal approval to fix (since they'd 
have to legally bless a new distribution).

Last word from Sun seems to be that it's more likely that the relevant 
plug will become obsolete (perhaps in a month?) than that we'll get a 
working Windows plug.

http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/discuss/2007-July/000102.html

-Dan