Compiling with Visual Studio 2017

[carl at bekwam.com]

Hi,

 

Thanks for the reply.  I’m following both wiki pages on building the tip and the 8u versions.

 

For this tag (8.0-b132), I get the following error with Gradle 4, so I downgraded to 1.8.

 

> java.lang.String cannot be cast to org.gradle.api.artifacts.Configuration

 

I pulled the version 14.15.26706 from here.  It’s the only subfolder on my system.

 

C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2017\Professional\VC\Redist\MSVC

 

-Carl

 

From: Nir Lisker <nlisker at gmail.com> 
Sent: Friday, October 19, 2018 1:31 PM
To: carl at bekwam.com
Cc: openjfx-dev at openjdk.java.net Mailing <openjfx-dev at openjdk.java.net>
Subject: Re: Compiling with Visual Studio 2017

 

Hi Carl,

 

The instructions for building OpenJFX 8 are in the wiki [1], though I never built this version myself.

 

Usually when "cl.exe" is not found it's because of a wrong MSVC_VER variable value. In VS 2017, this file is located under "VC\Tools\MSVC\<MSVC_VER>\bin" (there are 4 versions under this folder tree). It could be that the MSVC_VER value does not match the folder name in this path. I don't know why you're looking for it inside cygwin64, but, again, I am unfamiliar with this build.

 

Also, the Gradle version needs to be 4.8, not 1.8.

 

Good luck,

Nir

 

[1] https://wiki.openjdk.java.net/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=40271889

 

On Fri, Oct 19, 2018 at 8:05 PM <carl at bekwam.com <mailto:carl at bekwam.com> > wrote:

Hi,



I'm trying to build 8.0-b132 for Windows with Visual Studio 2017.  I was
able to build the Java code successfully, but am getting a path error



13:00:54.444 [ERROR] [org.gradle.BuildExceptionReporter] Caused by:
java.io.IOException: Cannot run program "C:/cygwin64/VC/BIN/amd64/cl.exe"
(in directory "D:\hg\rt\modules\fxpackager"): CreateProcess error=2, The
system cannot find the file specified



This is my environment



export JAVA_HOME=D:/Java/open-jdk8u172-b11

export GRADLE_HOME=C:/gradle/gradle-1.8

export
PATH="/cygdrive/d/Java/open-jdk8u172-b11:/cygdrive/d/gradle/gradle-1.8/bin:$
PATH"



export VS150COMNTOOLS="C:\\Program Files (x86)\\Microsoft <file://Microsoft>  Visual
Studio\\2017\\Professional\\VC\\Auxiliary\\Build"

export MSVC_VER=14.15.26706

export WINSDK_DIR="C:/Program Files (x86)/Microsoft SDKs/Windows/v10.0A"



I tried replacing the win.gradle from the 8.0-b132 with the file from the
tip.  In that case, I got a "WINSDK_DIR" not defined error.



Does anyone build openjfx 8 with 2017 or is everyone using the older VS for
the backports?  DirectX gave me an error when I tried to install the 2010
SDK.  Are the DirectX APIs embedded in VS now?



Thanks,

Carl