Webkit: Conversion from string literal loses const qualifier

[Ali Ebrahimi]

Hi Kevin,
I'm building with "Microsoft Visual Studio Ultimate 2013 Update 5" on
win8.1 64bit and FX repo http://hg.openjdk.java.net/openjfx/9-dev/rt.

On Wed, Apr 13, 2016 at 2:54 AM, Kevin Rushforth <kevin.rushforth at oracle.com
> wrote:

> Hi Ali,
>
> The production build of FX is done using VS2013 and we haven't seen this
> error. Where are you getting FX from? Are you using VS2013 Express or Pro?
> If Express, be aware that we do not support 64-bit builds (although this is
> not likely your problem).
>
> -- Kevin
>
>
>
> Ali Ebrahimi wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>> When building with VS2013 I get following error:
>>
>>
>> ..\..\..\..\src\main\native\Source\WebCore\platform\java\api\BackForwardListJava.cpp(46)
>> : error C2664: 'jmethodID initMethod(JNIEnv *,jclass,char *,const char
>> *)' : cannot convert argument 3 from 'const char [7]' to 'char *'
>>         Conversion from string literal loses const qualifier (see
>> /Zc:strictStrings)
>>
>> ..\..\..\..\src\main\native\Source\WebCore\platform\java\api\BackForwardListJava
>> .cpp(87) : error C2664: 'jmethodID initMethod(JNIEnv *,jclass,char *,const
>> char*)' : cannot convert argument 3 from 'const char [18]' to 'char *'
>>         Conversion from string literal loses const qualifier (see
>> /Zc:strictStrings)
>>
>> ..\..\..\..\src\main\native\Source\WebCore\platform\java\api\BackForwardListJava.cpp(98)
>> : error C2664: 'jmethodID initMethod(JNIEnv *,jclass,char *,const char
>> *)' : cannot convert argument 3 from 'const char [20]' to 'char *'
>>         Conversion from string literal loses const qualifier (see
>> /Zc:strictStrings)
>>
>> ..\..\..\..\src\main\native\Source\WebCore\platform\java\api\BackForwardListJava
>> .cpp(311) : error C2664: 'jmethodID initMethod(JNIEnv *,jclass,char
>> *,const
>> char *)' : cannot convert argument 3 from 'const char [14]' to 'char *'
>>         Conversion from string literal loses const qualifier (see
>> /Zc:strictStrings)
>> NMAKE : fatal error U1077: '"C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual
>> Studio
>> 12.0
>> \VC\BIN\amd64\cl.EXE"' : return code '0x2'
>> Stop.
>> NMAKE : fatal error U1077: '(' : return code '0x2'
>> Stop.
>> NMAKE : fatal error U1077: 'cd' : return code '0x2'
>> Stop.
>> :web:compileNativeWin FAILED
>>
>>
>


-- 

Best Regards,
Ali Ebrahimi