RFR: 8242508: Upgrade to Visual Studio 2019 version 16.5.3
Alessadro Parisi
github.com+16880178+palexdev at openjdk.java.net
Fri May 7 17:55:23 UTC 2021
On Fri, 7 May 2021 16:00:31 GMT, John Neffenger <jgneff at openjdk.org> wrote:
> I also think that we should remove it. If you read its history on the mailing list, it was added to the repository in part as a solution to the `WINSDK_DIR not defined` error. See the message ["Problems building openjfx"][1] on the mailing list. That discussion starts with `WINSDK_DIR`. My goal in #488 is to give developers a better chance at getting the official build under Cygwin working after hitting the error.
>
> [1]: https://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/openjfx-dev/2018-November/022858.html
>
Directories configuration issues that by the way still persist. In fact what I did to build the project in the end was to manually set the dir in the gradle config files and that was the only solution that would make the project compilable on my PC
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PR: https://git.openjdk.java.net/jfx/pull/212
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