start make from NetBeans on Windows - Please help!

[Ulf Zibis]

Hi all,

now I'm in a struggle, because I (1) don't own Microsoft Visual Studio 
C++ 2008 (VS2008) Standard Edition compiler and (2) capacity of my 
Laptop is limited, so I tend to avoid, giving VC++ 2008-Express Edition 
a try (maybe some more frustrating days).

I've filed a bug because of this lack: internal review ID: 1494977

=========>> Maybe someone could run once make for me ???
- In the moment I need to see the current output of 
\jdk\make\java\nio\genCharsetProvider.sh generating source view for 
sun.nio.cs.StandardCharsets.java.

Additionally I don't understand what following tag in 
\jdk\make\netbeans\common\make.xml is for? :
    <target name="-pre-init.windows" if="os.windows">
        <property name="platform" value="windows"/>
        <property name="make" value="c:/cygwin/bin/make"/>

It doesn't have any effect if I change it to (in my german Windows case):
        <property name="make" value="C:/Programme/CYGWIN/bin/make"/>

I think, this value should better be located in build.properties, so it 
could easily be customized,
                                              ...but first it should 
have any effect.

Thanks,
-Ulf

P.S.: This thread is archived here: 
http://www.nabble.com/OpenJDK-Netbeans-and-Ant-Build-Scripts-f27717.html 
(thanks to Kelly)



Am 08.04.2009 00:49, Ulf Zibis schrieb:
> Dmitri, thanks.
>
> I had to set path to ...cygwin\bin. ???
> I think, this info should be added here: 
> http://nb-openjdk.netbeans.org/get-and-build-troubleshooting.html
>
> Now I have the next problem:
>
> Entering directory `C:\Projects\OpenJDK7\jdk\make/java/nio/charset'
> ../../../../make/common/shared/Defs-windows.gmk:471: "WARNING: Value 
> of MSVCRNN_DLL_PATH cannot be empty, check or set ALT_MSVCRNN_DLL_PATH"
> ../../../../make/common/shared/Defs-windows.gmk:484: "WARNING: Value 
> of DXSDK_PATH cannot be empty, check or set ALT_DXSDK_PATH"
> link: missing operand
> Try `link --help' for more information.
> ../../../../make/common/shared/Compiler-msvc.gmk:129: *** 
> COMPILER_VERSION cannot be empty here.  Stop.
> C:\Projects\OpenJDK7\jdk\make\netbeans\charset\build.xml:39: The 
> following error occurred while executing this line:
> C:\Projects\OpenJDK7\jdk\make\netbeans\common\make.xml:64: exec 
> returned: 2
> BUILD FAILED (total time: 12 seconds)
>
> The problem is, that I don't have Visual Studio 2003 or 2005. I only 
> have VS 6 from 1998.
> But I think, there should be a way, to run make without Visual Studio, 
> if there are no native sources to compile, but some make generated files.
>
> -Ulf
>
>
>
> Am 07.04.2009 21:41, Dmitri Trembovetski schrieb:
>>
>>   I have a .cmd file "nb6.5.1.cmd" which looks something like this:
>> -----
>> @rem set path to cywgin or whatever
>> @set PATH=c:\devtools\cygwin;%PATH%
>> @rem setup VS2003 build env
>> @call C:\devtools\VS2003\Vc7\bin\vcvars32.bat
>> @start C:\DevTools\netbeans6.5.1\bin\netbeans.exe 
>> -J-Dnetbeans.winsys.statusLine.in.menuBar=true
>> -----
>>
>>   I have a shortcut to this cmd file, with "Run: minimized" set in 
>> the Shortcut   tab so that I don't see the cmd window when it's 
>> launched.
>>
>>   Thanks,
>>     Dmitri
>>
>>
>> Kelly O'Hair wrote:
>>> Sorry, I won't be much help on this.
>>>
>>> My last experience on Windows, CYGWIN and NetBeans was that you 
>>> needed to
>>> start NetBeans from a CYGWIN shell to get NetBeans to have things like
>>> 'uname' in your PATH.
>>>
>>> I don't think you can start NetBeans by double-clicking the icon, 
>>> because
>>> it won't pick up the CYGWIN environment properly, but maybe someone 
>>> more
>>> Windows NetBeans savy can provide some help on this.
>>>
>>> -kto
>>>
>>> Ulf Zibis wrote:
>>>> Hi Kelly,
>>>>
>>>> I have tried to start make from NetBeans using build target, and 
>>>> got some errors:
>>>>
>>>> Entering directory `C:\Projects\OpenJDK7\jdk\make/java/nio'
>>>> make: uname: Command not found
>>>> make: logname: Command not found
>>>> ../../common/Defs.gmk:188: ../../../make/common/Defs-.gmk: No such 
>>>> file or directory
>>>> make: -p: Command not found
>>>> make: -p: Command not found
>>>> make: +%Y: Command not found
>>>> make: *** No rule to make target `../../../make/common/Defs-.gmk'.  
>>>> Stop.
>>>> C:\Projects\OpenJDK7\jdk\make\netbeans\charset\build.xml:39: The 
>>>> following error occurred while executing this line:
>>>> C:\Projects\OpenJDK7\jdk\make\netbeans\common\make.xml:61: exec 
>>>> returned: 2
>>>> BUILD FAILED (total time: 5 seconds)
>>>>
>>>> Can you please give me some hint, what's going wrong here?
>>>>
>>>> Please see my project files in attachment.
>>>>
>>>> -Ulf
>>>>
>>
>>
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