building JDK6 - latest usable compiler

[Pete Brunet]

On 2/7/13 2:59 PM, Tim Bell wrote:
> On 02/07/13 12:18, 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)?
>
> JDK6 is built with Microsoft Visual Studio .NET 2003 Professional for
> 32-bit Windows and Microsoft Platform SDK April 2005 for 64-bit Windows:
>
> http://hg.openjdk.java.net/jdk6/jdk6/raw-file/f30a5896c305/README-builds.html#msvc
>
>
> There were O/S requirements also:  Windows 2000 SP2 for 32-bit and I
> believe it was Windows 2003 for 64-bit.
>
> Can you submit your builds to the sustaining JPRT queue?  There are
> some legacy Windows build systems available there that are still used
> to build 6-update releases.  You might be able to avoid the trouble of
> setting up your own legacy system.
I started down the other path, but based on what you said I think that's
going to be a lot more time consuming than using JPRT.  I did a 7 based
JPRT build for the first time a couple weeks back.  Let me see if I can
figure out how to do one for 6.
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> Tim
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