Proposal: Upgrade compiler version for Windows

[Andrew Haley]

On 05/13/2014 10:26 AM, Ivan Krylov wrote:
> I would like to revive this topic. As of now Windows build for OpenJDK6 
> is broken as of b31. Making it to build with VS2003 would be effectively 
> repeating in some sense the effort that Oracle is doing for the 
> closed-source jdk6 updates. I do not think that neither RedHat nor Azul 
> nor anyone else in the community has the cycles to do this work for 
> OpenJDK6.
> I am proposing to adopt for openjdk6 what we already do now for Zulu: 
> ditch VS2003 and adopt VS2010. Someone at Azul can prepare the patch for 
> this change.

That sounds reasonable.

Andrew.