RFR(S): 8145603 - Enable build.bat to use vcproj to build

[Mikael Vidstedt]

On 2015-12-16 14:48, Christian Tornqvist wrote:
> Hi everyone,
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> Build.bat has not been working correctly for a couple of years and is now
> completely broken after the JDK Version change. Rewrote it to use the Visual
> Studio project files instead, examples of use:
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> make\windows\build.bat tiered fastdebug
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> This will generate the vcproj files using create.bat (if they haven't been
> generated before) and compile the JVM using msbuild. The whole process takes
> about a minute on my machine and less than that if the vcproj files are
> already there.
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> Tested locally with x86 and x64 builds.
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> Webrev:
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> http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~ctornqvi/webrev/8145603/webrev.00/
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> Bug:
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> https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8145603

Not being fluent in .bat I could use a helpful comment on what line 26 
(set HotSpotWorkSpace) actually does.

Apart from that it looks good!

Cheers,
Mikael