Updating Visual Studio for 8u builds after EOL of VS2010 in July

[Martijn Verburg]

Hi Dave,

We build with 2013 at Adopt - feel free to use the details in the scripts (
https://github.com/AdoptOpenJDK/openjdk-build/blob/master/build-farm/platform-specific-configurations/windows.sh)
:-).

Cheers,
Martijn


On Tue, 17 Mar 2020 at 17:01, Currie, Dave <currdavi at amazon.com> wrote:

> Hi.
>
> As you may know, Visual Studio 2010, the current toolchain for building
> OpenJDK 8 on Windows, will go EOL on July 14th, 2020 [1]. Most Windows
> builds of OpenJDK 8 package msvcr100.dll, the C++ runtime DLL. At Amazon,
> we have heard feedback that shipping this DLL is going to start raising
> issues with compliance processes that require all libraries to be
> up-to-date and supported.
>
> We have been testing Amazon Corretto built with Visual Studio 2013, an
> updated toolchain. The changes to the build are simple but it does not work
> out-of-the-box and there are caveats/jtreg failures that need to be
> resolved. The biggest problem we have seen so far is that users who are
> running native libraries via JNI may be inadvertently using the
> msvcr100.dll that is loaded by the JVM and, when this is replaced, their
> app will fail. There are simple workarounds (e.g. install [2]) but it will
> not be drop-in compatible for this case.
>
> Is anyone else seeing similar feedback? Is anyone else considering a move
> to VS13 (or later) for OpenJDK 8 updates and have you seen blockers in this
> process?
>
> Dave Currie
>
> [1]
> https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/lifecycle/search?alpha=Visual%20Studio%202010%20(all%20editions)
> [2] https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=21576
>
>