Building on Win 2008

[Max (Weijun) Wang]

> On Jul 31, 2008, at 4:26 PM, Anthony Petrov wrote:
>> About a year ago I did build the complete Hotspot and J2SE code  
>> using VS2005 Express + MS Platform SDK + DirectX SDK - all  
>> downloaded for free from the Microsoft web-site. During building I  
>> identified some bugs (to name a few: 6486546, 6488751, 6523947).  
>> Some of them belonging to the J2SE code I've fixed myself, some  
>> were fixed by the Hotspot team. AFAIR, apart from the problem with  
>> the manifest files (see 6523947) I don't recall any unresolved  
>> issues... Are there any?

I don't know either.

You can contact with Ted Neward (ted at tedneward.com), he's in charge  
of a selected "OpenJDK Community Innovator's Challenge" named  
"OpenJDK on Windows".

Below is a copy of what he wants to achieve. Notice the "My goal is  
to ensure that I hit #1 by the close of the project period (August)",  
which is the VC++ Express goal.

> Begin forwarded message:
>> From: Ted Neward <ted at tedneward.com>
>> Date: March 19, 2008 12:11:14 PM CST
>> To: build-dev at openjdk.java.net
>> Subject: FW: Announcing Finalists for the OpenJDK Community  
>> Innovator's Challenge
>>
>> Given that it would appear that my proposal for updating the build  
>> process
>> to use a free compiler has apparently been accepted (see below),  
>> is there a
>> good time to start thinking about doing the migration work? Are  
>> there any
>> major build changes up & coming? I know Kelly has said there's  
>> some plans to
>> move the corba project out to an entirely Ant-driven process, so  
>> if that's
>> going to happen any time soon, I'll just leave it out of the  
>> migration
>> process. (I think the corba stuff still uses the C compiler for  
>> some of it,
>> no?)
>>
>> There's a two-step process I want to take with this:
>> 1) Let's leave most of the build infrastructure in place and just  
>> try to
>> swap in Visual C++ 2008 Express.
>> 2) Let's see about moving over to MinGW32's infrastructure  
>> (instead of
>> Cygwin's) and see if that doesn't help reduce the path problems we're
>> currently facing in the Windows build of OpenJDK.
>> 2) Let's see about moving over to the MinGW32 gcc compiler for  
>> building on
>> windows, and thus remove the dependency on Microsoft's compiler  
>> completely,
>> in case VC++ ever moves out of a free (as in beer or as in speech)  
>> SKU.
>>
>> My goal is to ensure that I hit #1 by the close of the project period
>> (August), and get as far down 2 and 3 as possible.
>>
>> Any thoughts? Suggestions? Ideas for how best to tackle this? You  
>> (the guys
>> at Sun) have a lot more experience with this codebase than I, so  
>> any tips,
>> pointers or suggestions are appreciated.
>>
>> Ted Neward
>> Java, .NET, XML Services
>> Consulting, Teaching, Speaking, Writing
>> http://www.tedneward.com
>>

-Max

On Jul 31, 2008, at 4:26 PM, Anthony Petrov wrote:

> About a year ago I did build the complete Hotspot and J2SE code  
> using VS2005 Express + MS Platform SDK + DirectX SDK - all  
> downloaded for free from the Microsoft web-site. During building I  
> identified some bugs (to name a few: 6486546, 6488751, 6523947).  
> Some of them belonging to the J2SE code I've fixed myself, some  
> were fixed by the Hotspot team. AFAIR, apart from the problem with  
> the manifest files (see 6523947) I don't recall any unresolved  
> issues... Are there any?
>
> --
> best regards,
> Anthony
>
>
> On 07/30/2008 08:23 PM Kelly O'Hair wrote:
>> 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