Problems about building JDK9 on windows

[Amanda Jiang]

Hi Volker,

A more detailed log from config.log is pasted below
------------------------------------------------------------------------------
configure:28612: Using microsoft C compiler version 16.00.30319.01 
[Microsoft (R) 32-bit C/C++ Optimizing Compiler Version 16.00.30319.01 
for 80x86]
configure:28729: checking for C compiler version
configure:28738: /cygdrive/c/progra~2/micros~2.0/vc/bin/cl --version >&5
Microsoft (R) 32-bit C/C++ Optimizing Compiler Version 16.00.30319.01 
for 80x86
Copyright (C) Microsoft Corporation.  All rights reserved.

cl : Command line warning D9002 : ignoring unknown option '--version'
cl : Command line error D8003 : missing source filename
configure:28749: $? = 2
configure:28738: /cygdrive/c/progra~2/micros~2.0/vc/bin/cl -v >&5
Microsoft (R) 32-bit C/C++ Optimizing Compiler Version 16.00.30319.01 
for 80x86
Copyright (C) Microsoft Corporation.  All rights reserved.

cl : Command line warning D9002 : ignoring unknown option '-v'
cl : Command line error D8003 : missing source filename
configure:28749: $? = 2
configure:28738: /cygdrive/c/progra~2/micros~2.0/vc/bin/cl -V >&5
Microsoft (R) 32-bit C/C++ Optimizing Compiler Version 16.00.30319.01 
for 80x86
Copyright (C) Microsoft Corporation.  All rights reserved.

cl : Command line error D8004 : '/V' requires an argument
configure:28749: $? = 2
configure:28738: /cygdrive/c/progra~2/micros~2.0/vc/bin/cl -qversion >&5
Microsoft (R) 32-bit C/C++ Optimizing Compiler Version 16.00.30319.01 
for 80x86
Copyright (C) Microsoft Corporation.  All rights reserved.

cl : Command line warning D9002 : ignoring unknown option '-qversion'
cl : Command line error D8003 : missing source filename
configure:28749: $? = 2
configure:28769: checking whether the C compiler works
configure:28791: /cygdrive/c/progra~2/micros~2.0/vc/bin/cl conftest.c  >&5
Microsoft (R) 32-bit C/C++ Optimizing Compiler Version 16.00.30319.01 
for 80x86
Copyright (C) Microsoft Corporation.  All rights reserved.

conftest.c
Microsoft (R) Incremental Linker Version 10.00.30319.01
Copyright (C) Microsoft Corporation.  All rights reserved.

/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


Thanks,
Amanda


On 4/15/14 1:57 AM, Volker Simonis wrote:
> 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
>>