Building Graal on Windows

[Doug Simon]

> On Nov 8, 2014, at 10:05 PM, Raffaello Giulietti <raffaello.giulietti at supsi.ch> wrote:
> 
> 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?

I’ll leave that up to the Graal devs who regularly develop on Windows to answer.

> If not, I'll report my findings in a couple of days or so.

That would be great. The more detailed you are, the better we can update the wiki documentation.

-Doug

> 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     I think the information on the wiki is just outdated.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
>> >      >
>> >
>> 
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