Building on Win 2008

[Erik Trimble]

Anthony Petrov wrote:
> On 07/29/2008 11:03 PM Erik Trimble wrote:
>> 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).
> Indeed. But we should make it possible to use the free versions of the 
> MS Visual Studio at least.
>
> -- 
> best regards,
> Anthony
I know there's been a lot of exploration on this topic, as yes, being 
able to use just the free MS SDK and the free Visual Studio versions 
would make it very nice.  Unfortunately, the free version of VS is 
actually _very_ different than the Professional version, and not just 
the compiler itself (which, has a whole 'nother set of bugs unique to 
it...). 

I think we'd all be grateful if someone could get OpenJDK to work with 
the free VS.  Volunteers?

:-)

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