Building with MinGW?

[Dalibor Topic]

Raffaello Giulietti wrote:
> So, the real reason behind my request for a MinGW based build is that it
> would be a second chance to try a build of the MLVM. But since nobody
> seems to have first-hand experience with OpenJDK7/MinGW, I'll gather my
> energies and my patience and retry with VisualStudio.

I think that getting OpenJDK to build with just with MinGW (or just 
the Cygwin gcc with -mno-cygwin, for the matter) would be quite 
nice to have, if you'd get it to work. What Kelly's saying is that 
there is likely a lot more to that then just changing the CC variable.

But of course, don't let that discourage you - I am not aware of
anyone actually attempting the build with MinGW, so your experience
(if you post it to this list) would be valuable at least in knowing
where the obstacles would be.

cheers,
dalibor topic

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