[MERGE FOR REVIEW] HotSpot 23.25-b01 Merge

[Alex Kasko]

On 09/14/2013 11:37 PM, Mark Wielaard wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 13, 2013 at 02:24:26PM -0400, Andrew Hughes wrote:
>> ----- Original Message -----
>>> Maybe a build server for windows builds will help? If there exists a
>>> spare server (e.g. at redhat) I can setup automated windows builds there
>>> (or write detailed instructions how to do it). It will take some time
>>> though, and I'm not sure about Microsoft licensing issues (for windows
>>> 2000, windows 2003x64 and MSVS2003).
>>
>> I don't know of any Windows machines at Red Hat :)
>>
>> Mark Wielaard has a build infrastructure in place to which you could
>> attach a machine that was able to do a build when prompted.  I don't
>> think anyone has ever tried it with Windows though.  CCing him as he
>> knows much more info about it than me.
>
> I think it (buildbot) should also work against Windows.
> But you are right that till now we have only used it against
> normal GNU/Linux slaves:
> http://builder.classpath.org/icedtea/buildbot/buildslaves
>
> I am afraid I am not a big help with Windows since I never used that
> operating system. Easiest would be if we could setup a build using
> a mingw cross compile and run the tests under Wine. I could probably
> setup a slave that does that.
I'm doing windows builds on linux using headless virtualbox. Build 
script fires guest machine, copies sources there, waits and copies built 
results back to host. I can setup buildbot slave, but I haven't proper 
machine for that right now.

>
> Cheers,
>
> Mark
>


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Regards,
Alex Kasko