error in awt_DnDDS.cpp building OpenJDK7/Windows

[Raffaello Giulietti]

I'm on Vista 32-bit and have VisualStudio 2008 Professional installed.

After some days hunting for backslashes, spaces and colons in paths, I
now encounter a compilation error that seems to be known
(http://bugs.sun.com/bugdatabase/view_bug.do;jsessionid=cc2b5a48cddee8e8cdbb6795b07?bug_id=6936319).

Does anybody know how to circumvent or fix it?

With this error, and perhaps even other ones I've not yet seen, I'm
wondering how Sun/Oracle can build the binary snapshots if they are
supposed to use the same tool chain that I'm using :-(
I'm beginning to think that they possess some special magic or some
undocumented killer tool.

Thanks in advance for any support
Raffaello