OpenJDK Windows build with Visual Studio 2010 Express Edition

[Phil Race]

At this time we've not tried openjdk builds with VS2010
I know freetype check has issues but not hard ones.  It appears that's
the only issue, but fixing it is TBD.

Your various path issues are likely not unique to VS2010

The failure to find "rc" and "mt" is probably most easily rectified by
set ALT_MSDEVTOOLS_PATH

but if that's so, automatically detecting a reasonable value for that  is
surely better than your hardwired paths. Also TBD.

-phil.

Damjan Jovanovic wrote:
> Hi
>
> Once again (http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/build-dev/2009-December/002641.html)
> I am compiling OpenJDK on Windows Vista with Visual Studio 2010
> Express Edition.
>
> OpenJDK version: recent OpenJDK7 AWT repository HEAD, 5bbc7438b333 tip
> Windows: Vista 32 bit
> Visual studio: 2010 Express Edition
> Cygwin: 1.5.25-15
> Bootstrap JDK: JDK 6u20
> Binary plugs: jdk-7-ea-plug-b97-windows-i586-10_jun_2010
> DirectX SDK: summer 2004
> Ant: 1.8.1
> Freetype: 2.3.4, from the binary Windows installer
> make: 3.81 from cmake.org
>
> >From last time, I knew to do "set > a.txt", "/path/to/vcvars32.bat",
> "set > b.txt", "diff -u a.txt, b.txt" in Cygwin, then convert and
> populate the changed environment variables to get the Visual Studio
> compilers working.
>
> 1. Compilation died very early as freetypecheck fails to compile due
> to missing crtassem.h; much messing around with freetypecheck.c and
> commenting stuff out kept on failing to compile or link so I wrote the
> following:
>
> #include <stdio.h>
>
> int main(int argc, char **argv)
> {
> 	printf("Required version of freetype: 2.3.4\n");
> 	printf("Detected freetype headers: 2.3.4\n");
> 	printf("Detected freetype library: 2.3.4\n");
> 	return 0;
> }
>
> Compiled that with mingw, and copied the .exe where it's expected, to
> fool the build env into proceeding.
>
> 2. Complation then failed because there's "nothing to do"; apparently
> the wrong "find" command was in my $PATH first.
>
> 3. The new $PATH messed up the path to "make", fixed it again.
>
> 4. Next there's an exception because jaxp needs Internet access... set
> that up and tried again.
>
> 5. It's hotspot's turn to fail next:
>
>         link.exe /manifest  kernel32.lib user32.lib gdi32.lib winspool.lib  comd
> lg32.lib advapi32.lib shell32.lib ole32.lib oleaut32.lib  uuid.lib Wsock32.lib w
> inmm.lib /nologo /machine:I386 /opt:REF  /opt:ICF,8 /map /debug /subsystem:conso
> le /out:adlc.exe main.obj adlparse.obj archDesc.obj arena.obj dfa.obj dict2.obj
> filebuff.obj forms.obj formsopt.obj formssel.obj opcodes.obj output_c.obj output
> _h.obj
> /usr/bin/link: extra operand `user32.lib'
> Try `/usr/bin/link --help' for more information.
> NMAKE : fatal error U1077: 'C:\cygwin\bin\link.exe' : return code '0x1'
> Stop.
> NMAKE : fatal error U1077: 'cd' : return code '0x2'
> Stop.
> NMAKE : fatal error U1077: '"c:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 10.0\VC\BI
> N\nmake.EXE"' : return code '0x2'
> Stop.
> make[3]: *** [generic_build2] Error 2
>
> Apparently /usr/bin/link is the wrong "link"...
>
> $ which -a link
> /usr/bin/link
> /bin/link
> /cygdrive/c/Program Files/Microsoft Visual Studio 10.0/VC/BIN/link
> /usr/bin/link
> /bin/link
>
> So in $PATH I first needed VC's paths with "link", then the path to
> cmake.org's "make", then Cygwin's paths with "find", then everything
> else.
>
> 6. Next a wrong path to "rc". I reapplied one of my old patches:
>
> diff -r ca34cfff70a4 make/common/shared/Compiler-msvc.gmk
> --- a/make/common/shared/Compiler-msvc.gmk	Fri Nov 27 16:07:32 2009 +0300
> +++ b/make/common/shared/Compiler-msvc.gmk	Thu Dec 10 19:13:15 2009 +0200
> @@ -34,8 +34,8 @@
>    CCC          = $(COMPILER_PATH)cl
>    LIBEXE       = $(COMPILER_PATH)lib
>    LINK         = $(COMPILER_PATH)link
> -  RC           = $(MSDEVTOOLS_PATH)rc
> -  RSC          = $(MSDEVTOOLS_PATH)rc
> +  RC           = "C:/Program Files/Microsoft SDKs/Windows/v7.0A/Bin/rc"
> +  RSC          = $(RC)
>    LINK32       = $(LINK)
>
>    # Fill in unknown values
> @@ -78,7 +78,7 @@
>        #rebase and midl moved out of Visual Studio into the SDK:
>        REBASE     = $(MSDEVTOOLS_PATH)/rebase
>        MTL        = $(MSDEVTOOLS_PATH)/midl.exe
> -      MT         = $(MSDEVTOOLS_PATH)mt
> +      MT         = "C:/Program Files/Microsoft SDKs/Windows/v7.0A/Bin/mt"
>        ifndef COMPILER_PATH
>  	COMPILER_PATH := $(error COMPILER_PATH cannot be empty here)
>        endif
>
> 7. I had to reapply the above MT fix to the Visual Studio 10 section
> of that file as well.
>
> It then successfully compiled. I am attaching the environment variables I used.
>
> All in all, still some work, but much easier than my last attempt.
>
> Thank you
> Damjan Jovanovic
>