Support building OpenJDK on Windows using MSYS2 and MinGW-w64 GCC?

[David Holmes]

Hi Andrew,

Check the build-dev archives for October for a thread "Building OpenJDK9 
on MSYS2". This is actively being worked on.

David

On 5/11/2017 9:26 AM, Andrew Sun wrote:
> Hi everyone,
> 
> I'm just wondering if OpenJDK could be modified to build on Windows using
> MSYS2 (free Windows development environment that includes MinGW-w64 and
> GCC). Currently MSYS2's MinGW-w64 toolchain (including GCC) is unsupported
> for building OpenJDK, and Visual Studio is required; however, on Linux, GCC
> is supported.
> Would there be any implications to such a method? If not, I would be very
> pleased. MSYS2 uses PKGBUILDs similar to the ones on Arch Linux. Adding a
> MinGW-w64 PKGBUILD for mingw-w64-jdk*version*-openjdk would be very
> beneficial to the MSYS2 project.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Andrew Sun
>