Building on Win 2008

[Martin Buchholz]

Porting OpenJDK to be an actual cygwin program,
rather than just being built using cygwin tools,
is an obvious target for open source porters.
The cygwinized OpenJDK would be available as part of the Cygwin
distribution.  Obviously a porter would have to fight with
many assumptions currently being made in the Makefiles.

Martin

On Tue, Jul 29, 2008 at 4:34 PM, Dalibor Topic <Dalibor.Topic at sun.com> wrote:
> 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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