Building OpenJDK 8 on Windows 8.1 Pro -- problems with msvcr100.dll

[Magnus Ihse Bursie]

On 2013-11-05 17:37, Rich P wrote:
>
> After updating toolchain_windows.m4 as you suggest above and 
> re-running  "bash ./configure", the script stops with the message:
>
> Configure source code has been updated, checking time stamps
> Running generated-configure.sh
> I pulled a fresh copy of the sources and tried again and the script 
> will not run after I modify toolchain_windows.m4. Perhaps modifying 
> the file (and thus the file's timestamp) is preventing the configure 
> script from running.  Does the script check file timestamps?  If so, 
> is there an easy way to get around this?

The actual configure script that you run is generated (think "compiled") 
from the source m4 files. For this, you need to have autoconf. 
Unfortunately, last I checked, msys do not include autoconf. :-( This 
means that you need to use cygwin, or another operating system, to run 
autoconf. You will need at least autoconf 2.69, and preferrably exactly 
2.69.

The way around that is to manually hack generated_configure.sh with the 
same replacement as you did in the source file (use search in a text 
editor to find it). I believe that will be enough to go around the 
checks, when you use only the open parts. Otherwise you need to hack 
around the checks as well, which is more tricky.

/Magnus