Building on Win 2008

[Kelly O'Hair]

That would be interesting, but a very big rock.

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I'm remembering a seminar I took a long time ago, the same one that
Harvey is talking about here:
   http://www.harveymackay.com/columns/best/11.cfm

Although I remember it being a bucket, not a jar.
You need to put the big rocks in the bucket first before you fill in
the empty space with the gravel and sand. Being careful about picking
out your big rocks. :^)

Anyway, we need to decide early what big rocks we want to add to
our jdk7 bucket, or take a hammer to them and break them up into smaller
rocks. Not sure converting Windows builds to gcc can ever be a small
rock. But what the heck, it's open source, have at it. ;^)

-kto

Dalibor Topic wrote:
> Erik Trimble wrote:
>> Also, Cygwin is the UNIX-ism platform of choice, and getting the JDK 
>> to build solely with Cygwin (on both 32- and 64-bit, Win2k, WinXP, and 
>> Win2003) would be a _huge_ deal. 
> I.e. using the gcc provided by Cygwin and the 'posixy' libc it provides?
> 
> cheers,
> dalibor topic
>