Building OpenJDK on Windows

[Kelly O'Hair]

Glad to hear you got it working. Windows is the most difficult to
deal with.

Hopefully we can just get rid of these binary plugs soon, should make
life easier when that happens.

-kto

Scott Marlow wrote:
> Yes, I have "set ALT_BINARY_PLUGS_PATH=c:/openjdk7_plugin"
> 
> My c:/openjdk7_plugin folder contains a subfolder called 
> "openjdk-binary-plugs".  I'll try to set 
> ALT_BINARY_PLUGS_PATH=c:/openjdk7_plugin/openjdk-binary-plugs and build 
> again.
> 
> The build has been running for a while now, that definitely helped me 
> get further!  :-)
> 
> After building for a while longer, I got this message:
> 
> "
>  >>>Finished making images @ Fri Nov  7 22:15:40 EST 2008 ...
> make[2]: Leaving directory `/openjdk7/openjdk/jdk/make'
> make[1]: Leaving directory `/openjdk7/openjdk'
> Control windows i586 1.7.0-internal build_product_image build finished:
> Control windows i586 1.7.0-internal all_product_build build finished:
> Control windows i586 1.7.0-internal all build finished:
> "
> 
> Thanks for the help!
> 
> Scott
> 
> Kelly O'Hair wrote:
>> I assume you set this:
>>
>>    ALT_BINARY_PLUGS_PATH = c:/openjdk7_plugin
>>
>> And that you got the binary plugs from:
>>
>>    http://download.java.net/openjdk/jdk7/
>>
>> These binary plugs are the pieces that we haven't or can't open source 
>> yet.
>> In particular this *sound*dll file is a sound library you need.
>>
>> -kto
>