cannot find valid Visual Code Studio install

[Erik Joelsson]

On 2020-07-09 15:04, Ty Young wrote:
>
> On 7/9/20 3:20 PM, Erik Joelsson wrote:
>>
>> On 2020-07-09 12:56, Ty Young wrote:
>>>
>>> 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
>>>
>> This was a very crucial piece of information that you left out 
>> initially. Panama uses libclang for specific new features in that 
>> project. I don't know the details on how to build that project. You 
>> will need to ask people working on Panama for details on any special 
>> needs they have.
>>
>> I would recommend you clone the mainline jdk and get that to work 
>> first as a baseline.
>
>
> Just did, as well as a version of panama-foreign that should work but 
> doesn't need clang(foreign-abi).
>
>
> It configures now, but fails to build with errors like:
>
>
> c1xx: fatal error C1083: Cannot open source file: 
> '../../../..c:/cygwin64/home/young/jdk-master/jdk-master/build/windows-x86_64-server-release/hotspot/variant-server/libjvm/objs/BUILD_LIBJVM_pch.cpp': 
> No such file or directory
>
>
Could you send your configure.log, spec.gmk and the exact command lines 
you used?

/Erik

> Basically every file within the objs file is missing... but it isn't 
> actually. I can see them in Windows explorer just fine and configure 
> doesn't throw any errors.
>
>
> Thinking that this was an issue with file depth, I moved the cloned 
> source code to root as "jdk-build". It still fails in the same spot. 
> Both of them.
>
>
>>
>> /Erik
>>
>>>
>>> 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?
>>>>>>>