bash configure fails on missing VS tools dir
Erik Joelsson
erik.joelsson at oracle.com
Thu Jan 4 12:36:48 UTC 2018
On 2018-01-04 12:45, Nir Lisker wrote:
> Yes, that did it, autegen.sh completed successfully. Thanks.
>
> Now the next problem with "bash configure":
> configure: error: Target CPU mismatch. We are building for x86_64 but
> CL is for "x86"; expected "x64".
>
> If that's the cl.exe which is in the same folder as vcvars, I noticed
> that in toolchain_windows.m4 that the script can try to find vcvars64.bat:
>
> if test "x$OPENJDK_TARGET_CPU_BITS" = x32; then
> VCVARSFILE="vc/bin/vcvars32.bat"
> else
> VCVARSFILE="vc/bin/amd64/vcvars64.bat"
> fi
>
> But this file doesn't exist in the VS 12.0 or 11.0 installations. The
> change I made to the above in order to solve the "missing" VC/bin dir
> was to force using "vc/bin/vcvars32.bat" (because /amd64 doesn't
> exist), which I guess was not smart and caused the above error.
> Here is the list of all vcvars in the VS installations:
> https://i.imgur.com/QtlePFq.png
>
> Note that VS 2017 has vcvars64.bat. Maybe vcvarsx86_amd64.bat in VS
> 2013 is fine?
>
> By the way, would building JDK 10 be any different in terms of
> compatibility? I already built OpenJFX 11 and I only need the JDK for
> that purpose. If JDK 10 can work here and is easier to build I'm fine
> with that.
>
>
It seems the Visual Studio Express edition did not include the native
64bit compiler:
https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hs24szh9(v=vs.120).aspx
When we updated to VS 2013 in JDK 9, we used the professional edition
internally, which comes with the 64bit native compiler. For OpenJDK, we
were still able to build 32bit with the express edition so we were fine
with that. In JDK 10 and 11 32bit is not as well supported.
The vcvarsx86_amd64.bat seems to be a 32bit to 64bit cross compilation
toolchain. I would try that and see what happens. In theory it should
work, but there may be a few more details to fix to get it all the way.
/Erik
>
> On Thu, Jan 4, 2018 at 12:55 PM, Erik Joelsson
> <erik.joelsson at oracle.com <mailto:erik.joelsson at oracle.com>> wrote:
>
> I think you also need the "Wrapper scripts for autoconf commands".
> Was a long time since I did this.
>
> /Erik
>
>
> On 2018-01-04 11:40, Nir Lisker wrote:
>> I get "-bash: autoconf: command not found".
>>
>> Here's an image of the autoconf packages in the cygwin installer
>> in case I didn't install the right one:
>> https://i.imgur.com/V3GMg9Y.png <https://i.imgur.com/V3GMg9Y.png>
>>
>> Do I need to add some directory to the PATH env variable? I'd
>> imagine cygwin would know where it installed it.
>>
>> - Nir
>>
>> On Thu, Jan 4, 2018 at 10:29 AM, Erik Joelsson
>> <erik.joelsson at oracle.com <mailto:erik.joelsson at oracle.com>> wrote:
>>
>> Can you run "autoconf --version" on the command line?
>>
>> /Erik
>>
>>
>> On 2018-01-03 16:33, Nir Lisker wrote:
>>> Hello Erik,
>>>
>>> I installed autoconf 2.69-3 through cygwin (indeed it was
>>> listed as 2.5). However, running "bash autogen.sh" still gives:
>>>
>>> You need autoconf installed to be able to regenerate the
>>> configure script
>>> Error: Cannot find autoconf
>>>
>>> If I run "bash configure" I get
>>>
>>> Configure source code has been updated, checking time stamps
>>> Running generated-configure.sh
>>>
>>> And that's it. I checked generated-configure.sh and it
>>> contains only comments and no script.
>>>
>>> In autogen.sh I tried adding a print to help with debugging:
>>>
>>> AUTOCONF="`which autoconf 2> /dev/null | grep -v '^no
>>> autoconf in'`"
>>> echo "AUTOCONF is ${AUTOCONF}"
>>>
>>> which prints
>>>
>>> AUTOCONF is
>>>
>>> Apologies for the mess. How do I continue?
>>>
>>> - Nir
>>>
>>> On Wed, Jan 3, 2018 at 4:54 PM, Erik Joelsson
>>> <erik.joelsson at oracle.com <mailto:erik.joelsson at oracle.com>>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>> Hello Nir,
>>>
>>> On 2018-01-03 15:34, Nir Lisker wrote:
>>>> Thanks for the detailed reply.
>>>>
>>>> Iv'e changed the logic in toolchain_windows.m4 and got
>>>> this message:
>>>>
>>>> Configure source code has been updated, checking time
>>>> stamps
>>>> Warning: The configure source files is newer than the
>>>> generated files.
>>>> Cannot locate autoconf, unable to correct situation.
>>>> Please install autoconf and run 'bash autogen.sh' to
>>>> update the generated files.
>>>> Error: Cannot continue
>>>>
>>>> I downloaded autoconf 2.69. How do I point to it? There
>>>> is no installation.
>>>>
>>> If you downloaded the src distro, then you need to
>>> compile and install it with something like
>>>
>>> $ ./configure
>>> $ make
>>> $ make install
>>>
>>> On Windows it's probably easier to just get it through
>>> cygwin. Note that the cygwin installer probably still
>>> lists autoconf as an old version in the name, but last I
>>> checked it was 2.69 that they actually provided. On
>>> Linux, just use your favorite package installation tool
>>> (apt, yum etc).
>>>
>>> As long as it's on the path, autogen.sh will pick it up.
>>> Configure will also detect that you changed an .m4 file
>>> and run autogen.sh for you automatically, which is what
>>> happened to you above.
>>>
>>> /Erik
>>>
>>>> On Wed, Jan 3, 2018 at 3:24 PM, Erik Joelsson
>>>> <erik.joelsson at oracle.com
>>>> <mailto:erik.joelsson at oracle.com>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Hello Nir,
>>>>
>>>> On 2018-01-03 13:05, Nir Lisker wrote:
>>>>
>>>> When trying to build JDK 11 on Windows 10 with
>>>> VS Express 2013 Update 4 (as
>>>> stated in the docs - the highest supported
>>>> version) the build fails:
>>>>
>>>> AFAIK, this should work, though I have only ever
>>>> used VS 2013 Professional.
>>>>
>>>> bash configure --with-tools-dir='C:\Program
>>>> Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual
>>>> Studio 12.0\VC\bin'
>>>>
>>>> If VS is properly installed in the default
>>>> location, there should be no need to specify
>>>> --with-tools-dir. Configure will look in the
>>>> default location automatically.
>>>>
>>>> ...
>>>> configure: Found Visual Studio installation at
>>>> /cygdrive/c/Program Files
>>>> (x86)/Microsoft Visual Studio 12.0/ using
>>>> --with-tools-dir
>>>> configure: Warning: vc/bin/amd64/vcvars64.bat
>>>> is missing, this is probably
>>>> Visual Studio Express. Ignoring
>>>> configure: Found Visual Studio installation at
>>>> /cygdrive/c/Program Files
>>>> (x86)/ using --with-tools-dir
>>>> configure: Warning: vc/bin/amd64/vcvars64.bat
>>>> is missing, this is probably
>>>> Visual Studio Express. Ignoring
>>>> configure: The path given by --with-tools-dir
>>>> does not contain a valid
>>>> configure: Visual Studio installation. Please
>>>> point to the VC/bin or
>>>> VC/bin/amd64
>>>> configure: directory within the Visual Studio
>>>> installation
>>>> configure: error: Cannot locate a valid Visual
>>>> Studio installation
>>>> configure exiting with result code 1
>>>>
>>>> /Microsoft Visual Studio 12.0/VC/bin/ does not
>>>> contain an /amd64 folder,
>>>> instead it has /x86_amd64. Also, vcvars64.bat
>>>> is located directly under
>>>> /VC/bin.
>>>>
>>>> This is strange. Looking at the configure source,
>>>> we assume that the VS installation should contain
>>>> "vc/bin/amd64/vcvars64.bat". If that file isn't
>>>> found, configure doesn't recognize the VS
>>>> installation. Unfortunately I don't have an Express
>>>> installation to look at, but my old professional
>>>> installation has that file. In VC/bin I only have
>>>> vcvars32.bat.
>>>>
>>>> I'm pretty sure this layout was how the express
>>>> edition used to look as well. Otherwise Magnus
>>>> wouldn't have written the build doc claiming it
>>>> would work.
>>>>
>>>> This means the file layout for Visual Studio 2013
>>>> has changed, or that it's different on Windows 10
>>>> (our builds are on older versions of Windows still).
>>>>
>>>> If you would like to try to fix this, the logic
>>>> that needs updating is in
>>>> make/autoconf/toolchain_windows.m4, in the macro
>>>> TOOLCHAIN_CHECK_POSSIBLE_VISUAL_STUDIO_ROOT.
>>>>
>>>> Iv'e made another attempt using /Microsoft
>>>> Visual Studio 11.0/VC/bin/ which
>>>> resulted in the same error. This folder also
>>>> has vcvars64.bat directly
>>>> under it. It also contains an /amd64 folder
>>>> with a couple of dlls inside.
>>>>
>>>> Since I'm specifying the path to the /VC/bin
>>>> dir I don't understand why
>>>> it's still complaining. What am I doing wrong?
>>>>
>>>> Because of how different the versions of Visual
>>>> Studio are, configure will not automatically assume
>>>> or try a different version than the default without
>>>> being told to. If you want to try 2012, you need to
>>>> tell configure using --with-toolchain-version=2012.
>>>> No need to specify tools dir as long as it's
>>>> installed in the default location.
>>>>
>>>> On a related note, is it possible to update the
>>>> build requirements to work
>>>> with VS 2017? OpenJFX already uses this version.
>>>>
>>>> This will likely happen in JDK 11 time frame. Note
>>>> though that changing compilers is usually a pretty
>>>> big effort so it will take a while.
>>>>
>>>> /Erik
>>>>
>>>> - Nir
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
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