How to test a fresh HotSpot build on Windows without building the whole JDK?

[Volker Simonis]

Hi,

I've just built a 64-bit debug HotSpot on Windows and I realized that
under Windows there's no "gamma" launcher like under Linux/Solaris
which can be used to run a freshly build HotSpot with an existing JDK
by setting the JAVA_HOME environment variable. The quick hack of just
replacing the "jvm.dll" (together with "jvm.map" and "jvm.pdb") of a
recent 64-bit Java 7 debug release (b39) with my newly build versions
of these files didn't work either:

Error: loading: d:\Software\jdk1.7.0_x64_b39\jre\bin\server\jvm.dll

Is there a simple way how one can run a freshly build  HotSpot on
Windows without building the whole JDK?

I should also mention that I built the HotSpot with VS 2005 which to
my knowledge is different from the version that was used to build the
Java 7 binaries. May this be a problem?

Any suggestions are highly welcome.

Volker