Cannot compile OpenJDK 11 (visual studio fail)

[Artur Khusainov]

I also reported this earlier.

You should install English (US) language pack for Visual Studio. And maybe
uninstall your current language pack.

чт, 25 окт. 2018 г., 9:26 Franco Gastón Pellegrini <
francogpellegrini at gmail.com>:

> Hello, I'm trying to compile OpenJDK 11 from hg sources, but when I use:
>
> bash ./configure --enable-debug --with-target-bits=32
> --with-toolchain-version=2017 --with-jvm-variants=client
>
> --with-boot-jdk="/home/Franco/Java/jdk10/build/windows-x86-normal-client-fastdebug/jdk/";
>
> it fail, because:
>
> checking for cl... /cygdrive/c/Program Files (x86)/Microsoft Visual Studio
> 14.0/VC/BIN/cl
> configure: Rewriting CC to "/cygdrive/c/progra~3/micros~1.0/vc/bin/cl"
> checking resolved symbolic links for CC... no symlink
> configure: The C compiler (located as
> /cygdrive/c/progra~3/micros~1.0/vc/bin/cl) does not seem to be the required
> microsoft compiler.
> configure: The result from running it was: "Compilador de optimizaci▒n de
> C/C++ de Microsoft (R) versi▒n 19.00.24234.1 para x86"
> configure: error: A microsoft compiler is required. Try setting
> --with-tools-dir.
> configure exiting with result code 1
>
> I already tried installing visual studio 2013, 2015, and 2017 (using the
> corresponding  --with-toolchain-version), but all of them fail too. 2013
> version fail in other way at the end, at compiling come security features.
>
> I'm using windows 7 32 bits (I need a 32 bits version for some specific old
> PCs).
>
> what should I do?
>
> --
> Franco Pellegrini
>