Discussion proposal: OpenJDK build on Windows

[Volker Simonis]

Hi Sunny,

that's definitely an interesting topic!

Do you know that OpenJDK can now be built on WSL by default since
https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8215445 ?

Also, the OpenJDK build can use the bundled version of freetype since
https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8193017 which makes the
dependency on FreeType much less of an problem on platforms which
don't have the freetype libs by default.

Best regards and looking forward seeing you at the Contributors Workshop,
Volker

On Fri, Jan 4, 2019 at 6:34 PM Sunny Chan <openjdk at sunnychan.hk> wrote:
>
> 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?