Building Graal on Windows

[Raffaello Giulietti]

OK, as suggested below by Christina and Bernhard, I could build a Graal 
enabled VM (C1 + C2 + Graal) *without* the need of DirectX SDK of any 
sort. The installation instructions should be modified.

However, since the installation of Visual C++ 2010 is rather convoluted 
depending on the previous exposure of your PC to Visual Studio (see 
http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=213290 and the related 
documentation for full details), I would like to try a build with a 
newer release of Visual Studio C++ Express, which all come with both x86 
and x64 backends already built in.

Do you foresee problems with this?
If not, I'll report my findings in a couple of days or so.

Best regards
Raffaello



On 2014-11-07 19:22, Raffaello Giulietti wrote:
> 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     I think the information on the wiki is just outdated.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
>  >      >
>  >
>