Proposal: Upgrade compiler version for Windows

[Ivan Krylov]

On 13/05/2014 22:35, Andrew Hughes wrote:
>
> ----- Original Message -----
>> 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.
>> Now it is up to the maintenance lead to decide what we do here for windows.
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Ivan
>>
> How easily can people using VS2003 change to VS2010? Is it just a matter of
> downloading a new package?
>
> Thanks,
Visual studio is not free. A license needs to be purchased. However at 
this time neither VS2003 nor VS2010 are available for purchase from 
Microsoft. The only option there is "open boxes" at places like Amazon. 
VS2010 is what is required for openjdk7 anyway (for those who work on 
both versions of OpenJDK).
We are also looking at a possibility of using a combination of Visual 
Studio Express (2010 or later) and platform SDK (both a free). The 
interdependencies for versions of compiler/linker/system header 
files/dlls/DirectX headers and libs are far from being trivial.

Thanks,
Ivan