Upcoming OpenJDK infrastructure projects

[Dan Fabulich]

I'm not sure if this request is in-scope for "OpenJDK infrastructure 
projects", but I'd like to pipe up in favor of simplifying the 
Windows build experience.

Specifically...

1) Update the build to work with Visual C++ 2005 Express, the free 
(no-charge) version of the Visual Studio C++ compiler.

The fix isn't too hard, but it requires a bit of figuring: 
http://bugs.sun.com/view_bug.do?bug_id=6523947

2) Provide support for building under MSYS make/shell, perhaps instead of 
Cygwin.

Cygwin make doesn't handle paths of the form "c:/code/openjdk" and has 
stated that they intend not to; they recommend using the MinGW MSYS make 
instead of Cygwin make for these purposes.

http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2006-07/msg00671.html

The Mozilla project updated their Cygwin-only build to work under MSYS, 
and now offer a convenient installer to set the whole thing up. 
Something like that for OpenJDK would be fantastic, though it's just a 
dream at this point.  :-)

http://developer.mozilla.org/en/docs/Windows_Build_Prerequisites

(Note that I DON'T mean that we should support building with MinGW gcc; 
that'd be cool, but IMO it's not necessary to build Windows software using 
a Free-as-in-speech compiler; using a free-as-in-beer compiler is fine for 
non-free platforms.)

I'd hoped to begin work on these myself at some point, though I'm pretty 
busy yet. :-(

-Dan