Building on Win 2008

[Kelly O'Hair]

We are focusing on the Professional edition first because the free
Express edition does not include the ATL include or lib files.

I'm not an ATL expert, but JDK builds have a dependence on it and it's
probably not going away for quite some time I'm told.

It's quite possible that much of the OpenJDK is very buildable with the
free Express edition, and once we are building with the Professional
edition, someone can see how much is buildable with the Express edition.

-kto

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