Error on build

Tue Oct 3 15:56:13 UTC 2017

> VS 2017 Professional is now required to build OpenJFX.
Ahh I see. I am sure it needs every bit of power offered by the 
professional version of Microsoft's excellent dev environment but 
unfortunately it cuts me out of building or testing since I don't have 
that subscription and it's really rather pricey. 

Cheers! 

 
>  
On Tuesday, October 3, 2017 9:43 AM, Kevin Rushforth 
<kevin.rushforth at oracle.com> wrote:
 
> The Wiki is out of date. VS 2017 Professional is now required to 
> build OpenJFX. A fix was just pushed [1] to allow a different build 
> of VS 2017 than the hard-coded one.
> 
> Also, I am still able to build with VS 2010 and VS 2013, which should 
> work as long as you don't build media or webkit (they aren't built by 
> default).
> 
> -- Kevin
> 
> [1] https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8187366
> 
> 
> 
> Chris Newland wrote:
>> 
>> Hi,
>> 
>> I'm also trying to build OpenJFX on Windows 10 so I can add a
>> Windows
>> build to my community OpenJFX build server at 
>> https://chriswhocodes.com
>> and am hitting the same problems as you.
>> 
>> Setting WINSDK_DIR on the command line using 'set' or 'export'
>> doesn't
>> work and neither does setting via the Windows environment manager
>> UI.
>> 
>> Hardcoding got me past this one:
>> 
>> def WINDOWS_SDK_DIR="..." above the check.
>> 
>> Next error I'm hitting is NativeCompileTask.compile()
>> 
>> This is with Windows 10, VS10 Express, WinSDK 7.1, and DirectX June
>> 2010.
>> 
>> buildSrc/win.gradle has hardcoded paths to VS2017 Professional so
>> I'm
>> guessing the devs who wrote this build script have got it working on
>> a
>> more modern build environment than the one described in the docs.
>> 
>> Will post here if I can get it to build.
>> 
>> Cheers,
>> 
>> Chris
>> 
>> On Tue, October 3, 2017 02:14, javafx at use.startmail.com wrote:
>>   
>> 
>>> 
>>> Hi again !
>>> 
>>> 
>>> Well I was able to track down the source of the error I am
>>> receiving
>>> from the gradle build. Unfortunately, the error persists, which is
>>> a bit of
>>> a mystery. Maybe a gradle maven can enlighten me here.
>>> 
>>> For some reason, this line on line 90-91 of win.gradle is throwing
>>> the
>>> exception, although I can prove it ought not to:  
>>> if (WINDOWS_SDK_DIR == null || WINDOWS_SDK_DIR == "") { throw new
>>> GradleException("FAIL: WINSDK_DIR not defined");
>>> I cannot get past this, the exception is triggered, and yet the
>>> assignment of a value to property WINDOWS_SDK_DIR is quite clear
>>> here (line
>>> of 69 win.gradle): defineProperty("WINDOWS_SDK_DIR", properties,
>>> System.getenv().get("WINSDK_DIR"))
>>> and that system variable is, in fact, set as proved by (my) running
>>> this
>>> simple program I wrote (which exists in the same directory as
>>> win.gradle
>>> to exclude any conceivable path issues) and getting the proper
>>> outputpublic class WinSDK { public WinSDK() { }
>>> public static void main(String[] args) { String sdk =
>>> (String)System.getenv().get("WINSDK_DIR");
>>> System.out.println("sdk = " + sdk);
>>> }
>>> }
>>> Output as expected- the proper path to Microsoft SDK and anyways
>>> certainly not the empty string or null.
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> Sorry to ask such a basic question but is anyone on this list
>>> actually
>>> able to clone then compile OpenFX from source using the procedure
>>> outlined
>>> on the below mentioned page using any of the gradle scripts, (in my
>>> instance gradle.win) ?
>>> 
>>> Seems like first -step level stuff that is done regularly by
>>> everyone
>>> on the list interested in improving or exploring OpenFX but maybe I
>>> am
>>> wrong about this? 
>>> 
>>> Many thanks in advance. 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>>  
>>> On Thursday, September 28, 2017 6:59 PM, javafx at use.startmail.comwrote:
>>>  
>>>     
>>> 
>>>> Hi All,
>>>> New member to this group. I am encountering a little trouble  when
>>>> I
>>>> try to build OpenJFX. I am following the instructions here: (using
>>>> Cygwin
>>>> on Win 7):
>>>> https://wiki.openjdk.java.net/display/OpenJFX/Building+OpenJFX
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> When I run gradle after cloning the OpenJFX repository, I get a
>>>> "build
>>>> failed with exception" . I include the output from the entire run
>>>> just in
>>>> case it's significant:
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> $ gradle
>>>> WARNING: An illegal reflective access operation has occurred
>>>> WARNING: Illegal reflective access by
>>>> org.gradle.internal.reflect.JavaMethod
>>>> (file:/C:/gradle/lib/gradle-base-services-3.1.jar) to method
>>>> java.lang.ClassLoader.getPackages() WARNING: Please consider
>>>> reporting
>>>> this to the maintainers of org.gradle.internal.reflect.JavaMethod
>>>> WARNING: Use --illegal-access=warn to enable warnings of further
>>>> illegal reflective access operations WARNING: All illegal access
>>>> operations will be denied in a future release
>>>> :buildSrc:generateGrammarSource UP-TO-DATE
>>>> :buildSrc:compileJava UP-TO-DATE
>>>> :buildSrc:compileGroovy UP-TO-DATE
>>>> :buildSrc:processResources UP-TO-DATE
>>>> :buildSrc:classes UP-TO-DATE
>>>> :buildSrc:jar UP-TO-DATE
>>>> :buildSrc:assemble UP-TO-DATE
>>>> :buildSrc:compileTestJava UP-TO-DATE
>>>> :buildSrc:compileTestGroovy UP-TO-DATE
>>>> :buildSrc:processTestResources UP-TO-DATE
>>>> :buildSrc:testClasses UP-TO-DATE
>>>> :buildSrc:test UP-TO-DATE
>>>> :buildSrc:check UP-TO-DATE
>>>> :buildSrc:build UP-TO-DATE
>>>> FAILURE: Build failed with an exception.
>>>> * Where:
>>>> Script 'C:\cygwin64\home\mdbg\rt\buildSrc\win.gradle' line: 91
>>>> * What went wrong:
>>>> A problem occurred evaluating script.
>>>>       
>>>> 
>>>>> FAIL: WINSDK_DIR not defined
>>>>>         
>>>>> 
>>>> * Try:
>>>> Run with --stacktrace option to get the stack trace. Run with
>>>> --info
>>>> or --debug option to get more log output.
>>>> BUILD FAILED
>>>> Total time: 1.376 secs
>>>> I should add that even though the tutorial doesn't mention to do
>>>> it,
>>>> I
>>>> cd-ed into the folder named rt, which was created by Mercurial
>>>> when I
>>>> cloned OpenJFX,  I called gradle from there. Calling it from the
>>>> directory containing rt resulted in nothing happening , which
>>>> makes
>>>> sense afaik.
>>>> the variable WINSDK is  not one I am familiar with- it's not any
>>>> environment or system variable on my machine and the tutorial
>>>> doesn't
>>>> say anything about it. I hesitate to start arbitrarily hacking
>>>> build
>>>> files based on error messages. It seems as though it ought to just
>>>> work
>>>> and perhaps this is a bug I should report or is it something else
>>>> ?
>>>> Thank you!
>>>>       
>>>> 
>>  
>>