building JDK6 - latest usable compiler

[Phil Race]

Yes you need VS2003. At this point your best bet to get it may be ebay :-)

-phil.

On 2/7/2013 12:18 PM, Pete Brunet wrote:
> Hi I have VS 2010 and need to build JDK6.  Using my typical JDK7 set up
> with VS 2010 make sanity reports
>
> ../make/common/shared/Compiler-msvc.gmk:129 *** COMPILER_PATH cannot be
> empty here. Stop.
>
> Do I need to install an older compiler (and if so where would I get it)?
>
> Pete