Building on Win 2008

[Dalibor Topic]

Erik Trimble wrote:
> 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?
I'm somewhat curious whether having OpenJDK packaged in Cygwin (and ant, 
etc.) would make our life easier on windows builds, though I'm not 
really hot on going down a rabbit hole if it has no benefit to OpenJDK.

cheers,
dalibor topic


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