Building jdk9 on Windows x64 and Visual Studio 2015 Community edition

[timo.kinnunen at gmail.com]

Hi, 

I’ve been going over the Windows build of the whole JDK for a while with VS 2015 and now I have patches that allow the build to complete. 

I’ve made changes in the root repository as well as in hotspot and jdk repositories. The changes fall broadly in three categories: enabling the v140 toolchain and improving freetype compilation, adding casts to where pointers are truncated and miscellaneous small-scale code changes.

The patch to the root repository streamlines handling of freetype by implementing a default source directory at $HOME/freetype under Cygwin. It is checked during configure and used for compiling if “--with-freetype-src” is not specified. A help message giving the unpacking command with the correct directory is also included. This patch is about 90 lines without counting generated-configure.sh changes.

The patches to jdk and hotspot contain native code changes only and no changes to make-files. These are about 580 and 290 lines, respectively. All patches are generated with “hg diff -g”.

Would you be willing to incorporate these? How should I proceed with this?




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