Problems about building JDK9 on windows

[Erik Joelsson]

Hello Amanda,

I suspect there is something weird in your environment that makes the 
variable extraction from the visual studio setup bat file fail. Could 
you paste the contents of the file <build-output>/set-vs-env.sh?

/Erik

On 2014-04-16 01:43, Amanda Jiang wrote:
> 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
>>>
>