Confused about Windows build

[Phil Race]

I concur. Out of the box, 32 bit builds with even the closest extant
free SDK may be something that has never even been tried and my
guess is it won't work without changes.

-phil.

On 10/16/11 7:09 PM, Kelly O'Hair wrote:
>
> Windows 2000 and Visual Studio 2003 is for 32bit.
> Windows 2003 and Microsoft Platform SDK is for 64bit X64.
>
> It's possible it could build with different Visual Studio compilers, 
> but that would probably require makefile and source changes.
>
> -kto
>
> On Oct 16, 2011, at 5:33 PM, Ulf Zibis wrote:
>
>> On 
>> http://hg.openjdk.java.net/jdk6/jdk6/raw-file/tip/README-builds.html#windows 
>> I read:
>> 4. Install the Microsoft Visual Studio .NET 2003 Professional 
>> <http://hg.openjdk.java.net/jdk6/jdk6/raw-file/tip/README-builds.html#msvc> 
>> or the Microsoft Platform SDK 
>> <http://hg.openjdk.java.net/jdk6/jdk6/raw-file/tip/README-builds.html#mssdk>. 
>>
>>
>> But on 
>> http://hg.openjdk.java.net/jdk6/jdk6/raw-file/tip/README-builds.html#msvc 
>> I read:
>> The 32-bit OpenJDK Windows build requires Microsoft Visual Studio 
>> .NET 2003 (VS2003) Professional Edition compiler.
>>
>> So do I really need to buy a VS 2003, or is there some "workaround" 
>> with the Platform SDK on Windows XP?
>>
>> -Ulf
>>
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