As you might have seen in the last changset, build-infra now builds on 32bit windows.

[Fredrik Öhrström]

It builds on WindowsXP, using Visual Studio 2010 Express (free edition).

1) Install Visual Studio.

2) Install cygwin + devel + zip and any other thing the configure script might complain about.'

3) Install freetype from http://gnuwin32.sourceforge.net/packages/freetype.htm and copy libfreetype.dll.a into the more useful name freetype.dll
It usually installs in: /cygdrive/c/Program\ Files/GnuWin32

4) From the cygwin shell
./configure --with-jvm-variant=server --disable-javac-multi-core --disable-javac-deps --disable-javac-server --with-freetype=/cygdrive/c/Program\ Files/GnuWin32

5) make

6) ./build/windows-i586-server-release/jdk/bin/javac Test.java
   ./build/windows-i586-server-release/jdk/bin/java Test
Success!

Anyone cares to test?

However jconsole does not work. As probably any other graphical program. I know some parts that are still missing. :-) Will fix that.

If you forget to do the disables above, then the build will be much much slower because of a bug that forces a 2 minute timeout after each repository. To be fixed.

//Fredrik