Building Graal on Windows

[Raffaello Giulietti]

Hi Christian, hi Bernhard,

I'll try the build without the DirectX SDK but that won't be before next 
week. I'll give you a detailed feedback about the build on this mailing 
list as soon as I get a running Graal VM.

Thanks for your help
Raffaello



On 2014-11-07 19:14, Bernhard Urban wrote:
 > afaik the DirectX dependency is only needed for building the whole JDK,
 > but not for HotSpot (which will be built with Graal). Can you try to
 > skip this step?
 >
 > -Bernhard
 >
 > On Nov 7, 2014 7:05 PM, "Christian Humer" <christian.humer at gmail.com
 > <mailto:christian.humer at gmail.com>> wrote:
 >
 >     Hi Raffaello,
 >
 >     I am running on Windows 8 (64 bit) and it works fine for me on a 
modern
 >     direct x version (DirectX 11)
 >     I think the information on the wiki is just outdated.
 >
 >     Can you try if you can continue without installing any specific 
directx
 >     version?
 >     Let us know if it worked, so we can update the wiki.
 >
 >     Thanks!
 >
 >     - Christian Humer
 >
 >     On Fri, Nov 7, 2014 at 6:40 PM, Raffaello Giulietti <
 >     raffaello.giulietti at supsi.ch <mailto:raffaello.giulietti at supsi.ch>>
 >     wrote:
 >
 >      > Hello,
 >      >
 >      > I'm on Windows 7 (64 bit) and would like to build Graal.
 >      >
 >      > The instructions at
 >     https://wiki.openjdk.java.net/display/Graal/Windows
 >      > mention to install "DirectX SDK (Summer 2004)". This version of
 >     the DirectX
 >      > SDK seems not to be available anymore on the Microsoft sites, so
 >     I'm stuck.
 >      >
 >      > I'm somehow reluctant to download the DirectX SDK from other
 >     sites not
 >      > related to Microsoft, but I'm willing to do so if you recommend
 >     specific,
 >      > reliable software repositories.
 >      >
 >      > Alternatively, does it really have to be the Summer 2004 release
 >     or do
 >      > more recent releases work as well?
 >      >
 >      > Thanks for suggestions
 >      > Raffaello Giulietti
 >      >
 >