[foreign] Instructions for using libraries on Windows

[Maurizio Cimadamore]

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Thanks for trying this out on Windows!

Maurizio

On 17/01/2019 16:48, Jorn Vernee wrote:
>> The `make update-build-doc` does not work on windows [1], so I ask
>> that you generate the .html dos for me instead.
>
> Apologies. It seems to be a configuration problem on my end, and not 
> necessarily a problem with Windows.
>
> Jorn
>
> Jorn Vernee schreef op 2019-01-17 17:36:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I have updated panama_foreign.md with instructions for jextracting and
>> running OpenGL and Python. I have also tried other Windows applicable
>> libraries, here were the issues:
>>
>> LAPACK & BLAS: require libgfortran-3 as a dependency, which I couldn't
>> find a binary distro for so quickly. (MINGW has a package for it, but
>> only libgfortran-4)
>>
>> Tensorflow: is crashing jextract with a stack overflow error.
>>
>> ```
>>     Exception in thread "main" java.lang.StackOverflowError
>>         at
>> jdk.internal.clang/jdk.internal.clang.StructType.<init>(StructType.java:37) 
>>
>>         at
>> jdk.internal.clang/jdk.internal.clang.StructType.<init>(StructType.java:32) 
>>
>>         at 
>> jdk.internal.clang/jdk.internal.clang.Type.<init>(Type.java:30)
>>         at
>> jdk.internal.clang/jdk.internal.clang.Type.canonicalType(Native
>> Method)
>>         at
>> jdk.jextract/com.sun.tools.jextract.TypeDictionary.getInternal(TypeDictionary.java:134) 
>>
>>         at
>> jdk.jextract/com.sun.tools.jextract.TypeDictionary.getInternal(TypeDictionary.java:134) 
>>
>>         at
>> jdk.jextract/com.sun.tools.jextract.TypeDictionary.getInternal(TypeDictionary.java:134) 
>>
>>         at
>> jdk.jextract/com.sun.tools.jextract.TypeDictionary.getInternal(TypeDictionary.java:134) 
>>
>>         ...
>> ```
>>
>> FWIW, you made a note about needing to pass `-C -c -C c++` to jextract
>> so it doesn't interpret some methods as varargs. I've tried without
>> those flags and am observing the same vararg problem, but in that case
>> extraction does succeed.
>>
>> The other libraries libproc, readline, and unistd don't seem
>> applicable to Windows. I will be on the lookout for Windows specific
>> examples that could be interesting.
>>
>> The `make update-build-doc` does not work on windows [1], so I ask
>> that you generate the .html dos for me instead.
>>
>> Here is the updated panama_foreign.md:
>> http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~jvernee/panama/panama_foreign.md
>>
>> Jorn
>>
>> [1] : 
>> https://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/build-dev/2019-January/024666.html