Discussion proposal: OpenJDK build on Windows

Sunny Chan openjdk at sunnychan.hk
Fri Jan 4 17:33:09 UTC 2019


Windows is still one of the development platform that is used in the
enterprise environment, however building OpenJDK on Windows is pretty
difficult and often error prone. I would like to lead a session on how to
improve building OpenJDK on Windows

Topics to discuss:

1) Is cygwin still the right way forward to maintain compatibility with
*nix build? Or we should use alternatives like gnuwin32 or recent version
of Windows Subsystem for Linux

2) Another interesting steps that is more difficult on Windows is building
freetype. Is there anything we can do to make it easier

3) Any documentation we should include to guide new developer easier?


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