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On 5/19/2010 12:56 AM, Raffaello Giulietti wrote:
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<pre wrap="">Since some days, the "OpenJDK Build README" mentions Visual Studio C++
2010 as the reference compiler.
As mentioned by Kelly
(<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/build-dev/2010-May/002944.html">http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/build-dev/2010-May/002944.html</a>),
the step seems to be a stable one, at least for some years, I guess.
Kelly, to your knowledge, has the transition to VS2010 been adopted even
by the formal JDK7 Release Engineering team?
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Since you got so far as to find this doc perhaps you could actually
read it. It says :<br>
<b>BEGIN WARNING</b>: At this time (Spring/Summer 2010) JDK 7 is
starting a transition to use the newest VS2010 Microsoft compilers.
These build instructions are updated to show where we are going. We
have a QA process to go through before official builds actually use
VS2010. So for now, official builds are still using VS2003. No other
compilers are known to build the entire JDK, including non-open
portions. So for now you should be able to build with either VS2003 or
VS2010. We do not guarantee that VS2008 will work, although there is
sufficient makefile support to make at least basic JDK builds
plausible. Visual Studio 2010 Express compilers are likely to be able
to build all the "open" sources, with only small adjustments, but this
has yet to be made to work. Also we have not yet seen the 7.1 Windows
SDK with the 64 bit compilers. <b>END WARNING.</b> <br>
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The only update I have to this is that I've got a small push coming up
which makes the Express compilers<br>
work too for all the open repos - at least for 32 bit.<br>
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Can we, outside of Oracle, give it a try or should we better wait some
weeks to see the build process stabilize before risking our mental
health ;-) ?
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It works fine. But its up to you to set up your environment to include
the compilers on<br>
your PATH etc. If you've navigated VS2003 then you should be mostly
there.<br>
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-phil.<br>
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