Support building OpenJDK on Windows using MSYS2 and MinGW-w64 GCC?

[Philip Race]

You should raise this on build-dev .. not discuss.

-phil.

On 11/4/17, 12:53 PM, Andrew Sun wrote:
> Hi everyone,
>
> I'm just wondering if OpenJDK could be modified to build on Windows using
> MSYS2 (free Windows development environment that includes MinGW-w64 and
> GCC). Currently MSYS2's MinGW-w64 toolchain (including GCC) is unsupported
> for building OpenJDK, and Visual Studio is required; however, on Linux, GCC
> is supported.
> Would there be any implications to such a method? If not, I would be very
> pleased. MSYS2 uses PKGBUILDs similar to the ones on Arch Linux. Adding a
> MinGW-w64 PKGBUILD for mingw-w64-jdk*version*-openjdk would be very
> beneficial to the MSYS2 project.
>
> Andrew Sun