Problems about building JDK9 on windows

[Volker Simonis]

Hi Amanda,

it would be useful if you could post the compile command line from
config.log which lead to the error (i.e. some of the lines above the
snippet you posted) to see what happened.

Regards,
Volker


On Tue, Apr 15, 2014 at 1:57 AM, Amanda Jiang <amanda.jiang at oracle.com> wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> I tried to build JDK9 on a windows machine (Win server 2008 R2 Enterprise)
> and got following error messages
>
> $ ./configure
> --with-boot-jdk=/cygdrive/c/Users/amjiang/workspace/tools/jdk1.8.0
> --with-target-bits=32
> .......
> configure: Using microsoft C compiler version 16.00.30319.01 [Microsoft (R)
> 32-bit C/C++ Optimizing Compiler Version 16.00.30319.01 for 80x86]
> checking whether the C compiler works... no
> configure: error: in `/cygdrive/c/Users/amjiang/workspace/dev':
> configure: error: C compiler cannot create executables
> See `config.log' for more details
> configure exiting with result code 77
>
> From config.log:
> .....
> /out:conftest.exe
> conftest.obj
> LINK : error LNK2001: unresolved external symbol _mainCRTStartup
> conftest.exe : fatal error LNK1120: 1 unresolved externals
> configure:28795: $? = 2
> configure:28833: result: no
> configure: failed program was:
> | /* confdefs.h */
> | #define PACKAGE_NAME "OpenJDK"
> | #define PACKAGE_TARNAME "openjdk"
> | #define PACKAGE_VERSION "jdk9"
> | #define PACKAGE_STRING "OpenJDK jdk9"
> | #define PACKAGE_BUGREPORT "build-dev at openjdk.java.net"
> | #define PACKAGE_URL "http://openjdk.java.net"
> | /* end confdefs.h.  */
> |
> | int
> | main ()
> | {
> |
> |   ;
> |   return 0;
> | }
> configure:28838: error: in `/cygdrive/c/Users/amjiang/workspace/dev':
> configure:28840: error: C compiler cannot create executables
> See `config.log' for more details
>
> -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
> The machine was installed with Visual C++ 2010 Express . Could you give me
> some suggestions about how to fix the issue?
>
> Thanks,
> Amanda
>