Confused about Windows build

[Tim Bell]

Does the JDK source still depend on afxres.h?

That was the stopper when I wrote up some blog entries about using the
free compilers, years ago:

http://blogs.oracle.com/TimBell/entry/building_jdk7_on_windows_xp
http://blogs.oracle.com/TimBell/entry/building_a_href_http_openjdk1
http://blogs.oracle.com/TimBell/entry/building_openjdk7_on_32_bit
http://blogs.oracle.com/TimBell/entry/building_openjdk7_on_32_bit2
http://blogs.oracle.com/TimBell/entry/building_openjdk7_on_32_bit3

Tim Bell

On Sun, Oct 16, 2011 at 9:07 PM, Phil Race <philip.race at oracle.com> wrote:
> 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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