HotSpot build problems on Windows

[Jon Masamitsu]

Christian,

I've added includeDB_gc_g1 as described in 3) below.
I've attached the file.  Could you verify that it works?

Thanks.

Jon


Christian Wimmer wrote On 11/13/08 21:06,:

>Hi
>
>When building the HotSpot VM on Windows using the create-script that  
>generates the Visual Studio project files, a bunch of problems occur.  
>I use Visual Studio 2008 on 64-bit Windows Vista, but most things are  
>independent of this configuration. Most problems seem to be related to  
>the recent integration of the G1 garbage collector.
>
>1) The most sever problem is that create.bat stops with the error  
>message "command line too long" when executing MakeDeps. The tool  
>takes so many parameters to configure the file structure for the VS  
>project. The integration of G1 added some new ones, so now the line is  
>too long. Even putting the source code directly into  C:\ so that  
>absolute paths are as short as possible does not help. My solution is  
>to abbreviate some command line flags, like "-additionalFile" and "- 
>additionalGeneratedFile". This works, but is no general solution for  
>the future.
>
>2) duplicate files: the files "concurrentGCThread.cpp" and  
>"concurrentGCThread.hpp" are present in two directories:  
>"gc_implementation\concurrentMarkSweep" and "gc_implementation 
>\shared". The content of the files is equal, so just deleting one pair  
>of files works.
>
>3) Missing includeDB reference for G1: In the file "make\windows 
>\projectfiles\common\Makefile", the reference of "includeDB_gc_g1" is  
>missing in the definition of "IncludeDBs_gc"
>
>4) The macro HOTSPOT_LIB_ARCH is not defined, i.e. the following line  
>is missing in the file "make\windows\makefiles\makedeps.make":
>	-define HOTSPOT_LIB_ARCH=\\\"$(BUILDARCH)\\\" \
>
>5) In the same file, the following define is necessary to avoid build  
>errors starting with Visual Studio 2005:
>	-define _CRT_SECURE_NO_WARNINGS \
>
>VS2008 also has a different project file format, however importing the  
>currently generated project files works fine so this is only a minor  
>issue.
>
>
>Christian
>  
>

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