RFR: JDK-8196108: Add build support for VS 2015/2017

[Tim Bell]

Erik:

> Oracle is planning on changing the toolchain versions used to produce
> Oracle builds of OpenJDK in JDK 11. As a first step towards changing the
> Windows toolchain versions, I'm implementing the basic support in the
> build system for both recognizing the newer versions of Visual Studio as
> well as generating a portable devkit for them.
>
> With this patch, it becomes possible (but not default) to create a
> configuration using Visual Studio 2015 and 2017. Note though that the
> build will still fail very early on. Fixing all the source code issues
> to get this to work will require a concerted effort from each affected
> component team and will be handled in a series of followup issues. The
> build system support naturally needs to happen first though to enable
> others to proceed.
>
> For now, this patch causes configure to issue warnings if you try to use
> the new versions of Visual Studio as we know it won't actually work.
>
> Bug: https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8196108
>
> Webrev: http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~erikj/8196108/webrev.02/

Looks good to me.

/Tim

> If anyone inside Oracle would like to use the new devkit for 2017, you
> can apply the patch below in addition to the webrev:
>
> diff -r 7e5fbd3a2254 make/conf/jib-profiles.js
> --- a/make/conf/jib-profiles.js Mon Jan 22 23:37:23 2018 -0800
> +++ b/make/conf/jib-profiles.js Sat Jan 27 00:39:57 2018 +0100
> @@ -769,7 +769,7 @@
>           macosx_x64: "Xcode6.3-MacOSX10.9+1.0",
>           solaris_x64: "SS12u4-Solaris11u1+1.0",
>           solaris_sparcv9: "SS12u4-Solaris11u1+1.0",
> -        windows_x64: "VS2013SP4+1.0",
> +        windows_x64: "VS2017-15.5.5+1.0",
>           linux_aarch64:
> "gcc-linaro-aarch64-linux-gnu-4.8-2013.11_linux+1.0",
>           linux_arm: (input.profile != null &&
> input.profile.indexOf("hflt") >= 0
>                       ?
> "gcc-linaro-arm-linux-gnueabihf-raspbian-2012.09-20120921_linux+1.0"
> @@ -784,8 +784,8 @@
>           + "-" + input.build_cpu;
>
>       var freetype_version = {
> -        windows_x64: "2.7.1-v120+1.1",
> -        windows_x86: "2.7.1-v120+1.1",
> +        windows_x64: "2.7.1-v141+1.0",
> +        windows_x86: "2.7.1-v141+1.0",
>           macosx_x64: "2.7.1-Xcode6.3-MacOSX10.9+1.0"
>       }[input.target_platform];
>