Building on Win 2008

[Erik Trimble]

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
>
I certainly can't speak for Sun on this.  But, I don't think there is 
any immediate plans to use GCC on Windows. It would probably be OK if 
someone wanted to try, but I can't imagine it being even remotely easy.  
There's just so much stuff dependent on the various Visual Studio or MS 
SDK header files, that I'm almost positive you have to install them to 
do the build, so why bother with GCC?  (even from a Free Software point 
of view, if you can't get away from the proprietary MS SDK/VisStudio, 
then compiling with GCC rather than the MS-provided one isn't going to 
be really any win at all).

As Dimitri indicated, we're at least partially there with moving to 
completely Cygwin.   I expect that the WinXP/VS2008 combo will no longer 
require MKS at all.  It would be nice if we could get Win2003/MS SDK  
there also.  [and, of course, for older releases (JDK 5/6), fixing 
Win2000 so it doesn't need MKS would be nice, too]

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