cannot find valid Visual Code Studio install

[Ty Young]

On 7/9/20 9:22 AM, Erik Joelsson wrote:
> Could you post the full configure command and log please. This sounds 
> weird. You should not be needing clang on Windows.
>
> Also, what source did you clone?


On linux right now, but I think it's because I'm using the jextract 
branch of panama-foreign:


https://github.com/openjdk/panama-foreign


I remember there being a commit some time ago that requires clang to be 
specified on panama-dev, but I've never had to do that under Linux. This 
is my first time compiling on Windows so I have no idea what's going on.


>
> /Erik
>
> On 2020-07-09 07:04, Ty Young wrote:
>>
>> On 7/9/20 7:37 AM, Erik Joelsson wrote:
>>> Hello Ty,
>>>
>>> Microsoft Visual Studio 2019 or 2017, any edition, should work. My 
>>> best guess is that you skipped installing the necessary parts of it. 
>>> Run the installer again, click "Modify" and make sure you have 
>>> "Desktop development with C++" ticked in.
>>
>>
>> That worked, thanks!
>>
>>
>> It still didn't configure though. Now it's complaining about not 
>> having clang installed. Once I installed clang and clang-devel, it 
>> then complained about not having version 9 installed. The latest 
>> version from cygdrive was 8<something>, 9 is not an option. If I try 
>> to trick it by copying and renaming the older 8<something> version, 
>> it then complains about Index.h being found but not being compileable 
>> and to report it here.
>>
>>
>> Any advice here? I tried installing more extra stuff from Visual Code 
>> Studio to see if it'd help, but it doesn't or I'm not installing the 
>> right things.
>>
>>
>>>
>>> /ERik
>>>
>>> On 2020-07-09 01:29, Ty Young wrote:
>>>> Hopefully this is the right place. Don't shoot me if it isn't, please.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> I'm trying to build the JDK from Windows 10. I got so far as to 
>>>> configure failing on finding what it needs from the Visual Code 
>>>> Studio install via command line:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> configure: Found Visual Studio installation at /cygdrive/c/Program 
>>>> Files (x86)/Microsoft Visual Studio/2019/Community using well-known 
>>>> name
>>>> configure: Warning: None of vc/bin/amd64/vcvars64.bat 
>>>> vc/bin/x86_amd64/vcvarsx86_amd64.bat 
>>>> VC/Auxiliary/Build/vcvarsx86_amd64.bat 
>>>> VC/Auxiliary/Build/vcvars64.bat were found, Visual Studio 
>>>> installation not recognized. Ignoring
>>>> configure: Found Visual Studio installation at /cygdrive/c/Program 
>>>> Files (x86)/Microsoft Visual Studio/2019/Community using well-known 
>>>> name
>>>> configure: Warning: None of vc/bin/amd64/vcvars64.bat 
>>>> vc/bin/x86_amd64/vcvarsx86_amd64.bat 
>>>> VC/Auxiliary/Build/vcvarsx86_amd64.bat 
>>>> VC/Auxiliary/Build/vcvars64.bat were found, Visual Studio 
>>>> installation not recognized. Ignoring
>>>> configure: Cannot locate a valid Visual Studio installation, 
>>>> checking current environment
>>>> checking for Visual Studio variables... not found
>>>> configure: Cannot locate a valid Visual Studio or Windows SDK 
>>>> installation on disk,
>>>> configure: nor is this script run from a Visual Studio command prompt.
>>>> configure: Try setting --with-tools-dir to the VC/bin directory 
>>>> within the VS installation
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> However there is no "bin" directory in this installation, at least 
>>>> not one that contains any of the specified files. This is Visual 
>>>> Code 2019 Community, but I've tried the Professional version too. 
>>>> The building document doesn't specify which version, nor does it 
>>>> tell me how to fix this.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> How do I get this to work via command line?
>>>>