Building Open JDK 6 On Windows 7

[Kelly O'Hair]

openjdk6 would require source file changes and lots of makefile changes to build with VS2010.

The transition of openjdk7 from VS2003 to VS2010 was a long and somewhat painful trip.
Not that it isn't possible to do it for openjdk6, just no priority or need from my point of view.

Of course, keep in mind that VS2010 is not supported on Windows 2000, and although it wouldn't
be a huge deal to not support Windows 2000 for openjdk6, the Oracle jdk6 Update releases do use
VS2003 and support Windows 2000.
So if a goal is to keep openjdk6 lined up with Oracle jdk6 Update releases, this would create a difference.
We just need to make this decision with eyes wide open.

If the Oracle jdk6 Update releases gave up Windows 2000, and switched to VS2010, then that would
certainly create a need to change openjdk6.

-kto

On Dec 5, 2011, at 10:50 AM, skamesh wrote:

> 
> Hi, 
> 
> i am trying to build a openjdk-6 package on Windows 7 (64-bit) with Visual
> Studio 2010. I am getting the COMPILER_PATH error though i have already run
> `eval make/scripts/vsvars.sh`. I did read few posts that openjdk6 requires
> VS2003 .. 
> 
> Can any one let me know if its possible to build the same with VS 2010 ?
> Since I don't have VS2003 and very difficult to find it after so many years. 
> 
> I was able to successfully build openjdk7 following the README.build with
> the same environment.
> 
> Any help is much appreciated :)
> 
> -Kamesh
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