Building OpenJDK 7 on Windows XP

[Kelly O'Hair]

I can't see this happening due to the legal re-distribution issues
and requirements you'd have on all these different software packages.
And I for one would NOT want to be the maintainer of it.

Maybe my frustrations with Windows is blinding me to some new
good solution to this problem, but installing cygwin is the
least of the Windows issues in my opinion.

-kto

Martin Buchholz wrote:
> I propose that Sun create an externally-visible tree of binaries
> in the form that the JDK makefiles expect for ALT_SLASH_JAVA.
> Then OpenJDK developers could copy this tree to their development
> machine, set ALT_SLASH_JAVA to this directory, and most of
> the sanity warnings would evaporate.
> 
> Of course, this may not be possible for everything that is
> expected to be found in ALT_SLASH_JAVA.  E.g. Sun compilers
> probably cannot be provided this way, because of the usual
> requirement to have click-through licenses?!
> Perhaps Sun could aggregate a complete JDK development
> environment in one mega-tarball, protected by just one
> click-through license?
> 
> Perhaps Sun could provide a known-to-work copy of Cygwin
> for JDK development.  The Cygwin project itself doesn't provide
> historic binaries, but if you install Cygwin by first downloading
> everything to disk, and then installing from there, you'll have
> a frozen-in-time set of Cygwin binaries that you can probably
> legally redistribute later when they've gotten the thumbs-up
> from Sun JDK development engineers.
> 
> Martin