IcedTea 1.12.5 windows build errors

[Andrew Hughes]

----- Original Message -----
> On 06/18/2013 03:11 PM, Andrew Hughes wrote:
> > ----- Original Message -----
> >> I've built IcedTea 1.12.5 for windows-i586 successfully. If anybody want
> >> to test it, j2sdk-image is here -
> >> https://docs.google.com/file/d/0BwRxcq1fvxU6X2liMEVVQTFuVms/edit?usp=sharing
> >> (sha1: 25998c275159622bc22137f36ce1925da905e530). Tested with "make
> >> test" (on windows 2000) and running "bin/jconsole.exe" on (windows 2000
> >> and windows 2003 x64). windows-amd64 build is in progress.
> >>
> >> I applied some patches, most of them are straightforward (use bundled
> >> zip/gif/png/jpeg, exclude rhino) only one is non-obvious (windows
> >> specific AWT problem, patched it "blindly", will look at it thoroughly).
> >> Patches are quite messy right now, I'll publish them later.
> >>
> >> I'm interesting in maintaining windows builds for IcedTea, is it
> >> possible to have windows-specific changes upstreamed into IcedTea?
> >
> > This is great news!  Yes, I'd love to get these changes into IcedTea for
> > 1.13.0.  We also do support for OpenJDK 7 (IcedTea 2.x) and are working
> > on OpenJDK 8 (IcedTea 3.x), if you'd be interested in either at some point.
> > 7 already has the option of turning off system library support and it's
> > probably about time it was added to 1.x.
> Yes, I'm going to try 2.4.0 soon. And going to leave 3.x for later
> (openjdk8 new build system + MSYS will require some work).

Yeah, 3.x is still a work-in-progress for use on x86_64 GNU/Linux, never mind
Windows! :-D

> 
> >
> > Thanks for investing time in doing this :)
> >
> >>
> >> On 06/14/2013 03:16 AM, Alex Kasko wrote:
> >>> On 06/13/2013 07:18 PM, Alex Kasko wrote:
> >>>> Hi,
> >>>>
> >>>> I'm trying to build IcedTea 1.12.5 for windows-i586. Ultimate goal is to
> >>>> get jdk6 GPL binaries for windows and linux with latest bugfixes. I have
> >>>> a virtual machine with proper environment for building openjdk6 [1] (it
> >>>> builds openjdk6-build27 successfully).
> >>>>
> >>>> I thought, that most IcedTea changes are linux-related, and
> >>>> windows-specific part should be close to openjdk6 build 27. So I ran
> >>>> "./configure" (in Linux) without specific options, abort the build after
> >>>> patching step and copy "icedtea6-1.12.5/openjdk" contents to windows
> >>>> machine.
> >>>>
> >>>> During the build on windows corba, jaxp, jaxws and hotspot modules works
> >>>> fine but jdk module aborted the build with AWT-related error [2] .
> >>> Fixed this particular "Wheel95GetMsg" AWT error, have other AWT problems
> >>> now, will report them later.
> >>>
> >>>> Comparing AWT sources between IcedTea 1.12.5 and current openjdk6
> >>>> mercurial tip I found a lot of windows-specific changes (Direct3D etc)
> >>>> in IcedTea.
> >>>>
> >>>> Questions about all that:
> >>>> 1) Is there something like "$ ./configure ; make download-openjdk" for
> >>>> IcedTea 1.12.5 to get patched openjdk sources?
> >>>> 2) Is there a switch (in 1.12.5) for using bundled zlib instead of
> >>>> system one (I changed makefiles to use bundled one)?
> >>>> 3) Am I understand right, that windows changes are the parts of jdk7
> >>>> backports and may not work properly with older compiler (jdk6 is built
> >>>> with MSVS2003)? Or what are they for, giving that windows is not
> >>>> supported platform for icedtea?
> >>>> 4) Is it a good idea (for windows builds) to try to revert some windows
> >>>> specific AWT-related patches in IcedTea-1.12.5 to make it closer to
> >>>> openjdk6-build27? Or changes are too big for that?
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>> [1]
> >>>> http://hg.openjdk.java.net/jdk6/jdk6/raw-file/tip/README-builds.html#MBE
> >>>> [2] https://gist.github.com/alexkasko/5773264
> >>>>
> >>>
> >>
> >>
> >> --
> >> Regards,
> >> Alex Kasko
> >>
> >
> 
> 
> --
> Regards,
> Alex Kasko
> 

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Andrew :)

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