configure jdk new build on win 7 enterprise

[Eric Caspole]

Just FYI, I found this very good page showing how to do it:

  http://java.net/projects/adoptopenjdk/pages/BuildWindows

Eric


On 01/11/2013 11:07 AM, Eric Caspole wrote:
> Yes it was something like that. Although my original install of cygwin
> took more than an hour downloading stuff from the web, it did not
> install make or zip by default, so I went back and added them in a
> second install step.
>
> It is starting the build now, we'll see.
>
>
> On 01/10/2013 08:22 PM, Frost, Gary wrote:
>> So is the gmake file (under Perl) really gnu make?
>>
>> Have you downloaded the cygwin make package.  My guess is the binary
>> under
>> perl/c is not really make.  Maybe they want you to rename gnu make to
>> gmake so that it is picked up instead of microsofts own make.
>>
>> From
>> http://cygwin.com/packages/make/make-3.81-2
>>
>>
>> It sure looks like cygwins make is called make.exe not gmake.exeŠ.
>>
>> Confusing.
>>
>> Gary
>>
>>
>>
>> On 1/10/13 5:33 PM, "Eric Caspole" <eric.caspole at amd.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi everyone,
>>> I am trying to get something ready for eventual contribution in to
>>> sumatra, and I would like to check my code works on Windows.
>>>
>>> This is the first time I am building the JDK on Windows using the new
>>> build.
>>>
>>> I have installed the complete latest cygwin, but the configure does not
>>> like the gmake in cygwin. This is Windows 7 enterprise SP1 and I .
>>>
>>> My error output is shown below.
>>>
>>> Does anyone know the fix for this or what else needs to be installed?
>>>
>>> I have set up the system like I was otherwise using to build just
>>> hotspot (not the whole JDK) a few months ago with Windows SDK 7.1.
>>>
>>> I'll keep searching in the build-dev list but I have not found anything
>>> yet.
>>> Thanks for any advice,
>>> Eric
>>>
>>>
>>> =========
>>>
>>> AparapiTest at AparapiTest-PC
>>> /cygdrive/c/Users/AparapiTest/views/sumatra-dev
>>> $ sh ./configure
>>> Running generated-configure.sh
>>> configure: Configuration created at Thu Jan 10 15:38:38 CST 2013.
>>> configure: configure script generated at timestamp 1355963953.
>>> checking for basename... /usr/bin/basename
>>>
>>> ...
>>>
>>> checking for pkgadd... no
>>> checking for gmake... /cygdrive/c/Perl/c/bin/gmake
>>> configure: Testing potential make at /cygdrive/c/Perl/c/bin/gmake, found
>>> using gmake in PATH
>>>   at /cygdrive/c/Perl/c/bin/gmake, but it is not for cygwin (it says:
>>> Built for x86_64-w64-mingw32). Ignoring.
>>> checking for make... no
>>> configure: error: Cannot find GNU make 3.81 or newer! Please put it in
>>> the path, or add e.g. MAKE=/opt/gmake3.81/make as argument to configure.
>>> configure exiting with result code 1
>>>
>>> AparapiTest at AparapiTest-PC
>>> /cygdrive/c/Users/AparapiTest/views/sumatra-dev
>>> $ uname -a
>>> CYGWIN_NT-6.1-WOW64 AparapiTest-PC 1.7.17(0.262/5/3) 2012-10-19 14:39
>>> i686 Cygwin
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
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