Problem building openjdk using cygwin

[Alireza Mohamadi]

Thanks Volker you are awesome!
After reading resources you've mentioned and doing some research I became
able to set short name for "Micrisoft Visual Studio" directory using:
`fsutil file setshortname "C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio"
msvs`, without even enabling 8dot3name globally. Now I'm building openjdk.
Gratitude. Keep on the great job :)

On Sun, Apr 1, 2018 at 7:09 PM, Volker Simonis <volker.simonis at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Hi Alireza,
>
> sorry if my answer (and especially the link which I provided) have been
> unclear. You don’t have to create any junctions. You just have to enable
> short (i.e. „8.3“ filenames) for the drive /directory where you have
> installed Visual Studio. Afterwards you must copy “microsoft visual studio”
> to a temporary directory and finally copy it back to “microsoft visual
> studio”. This should create a short name for that directpry.
>
> You can find more information about how to enable/disable short filenames
> here:
>
> https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/previous-versions/windows/
> it-pro/windows-server-2012-R2-and-2012/ff621566(v=ws.11)
>
> https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/121007/how-to-
> disable-8-3-file-name-creation-on-ntfs-partitions
>
> Regards,
> Volker
>
>
> Alireza Mohamadi <dangersd at gmail.com> schrieb am Sa. 31. März 2018 um
> 09:50:
>
>> Hi Volker, gratitude for answering my question.
>> After reading Q&A link you provided I realized how to make junctions but
>> I don't know which source should be attached to the target?
>> As you've mentioned `:/cygdrive/c/progra~2/microsoft: No such file or
>> directory` means there are no links available for "C:\Program Files
>> (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio",
>> so I tried
>> ```
>> C:\WINDOWS\system32>mklink /j "C:\progra~2\microsoft~7" "C:\Program Files
>> (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio"
>> Junction created for C:\progra~2\microsoft~7 <<===>> C:\Program Files
>> (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio
>> ```
>> but it seems not working because I get the same error. Can you give some
>> tips please? Sorry if I'm newbie, I'm just interested in some JEPs and want
>> to test them in a project to see if I can deploy it later.
>> Many thanks.
>>
>> On Thu, Mar 29, 2018 at 11:55 AM, Volker Simonis <
>> volker.simonis at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi Alireza,
>>>
>>> it seems you don’t have short file names enabled for the “Program Files”
>>> directory. Notice that you have short file names enabled for “c:\” (i.e.
>>> you have “progra~2”).
>>>
>>> You have to first enable short file names for the “Program Files”
>>> directory (see for example
>>> https://superuser.com/questions/681330/how-to-force-
>>> short-name-8dot3-generation).
>>>
>>> Afterwards you must copy “microsoft visual studio” to a temporary
>>> directory and finally copy it back to “microsoft visual studio”. This
>>> should create a short name for that directory.
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>> Volker
>>>
>>> Alireza Mohamadi <dangersd at gmail.com> schrieb am Do. 29. März 2018 um
>>> 06:08:
>>>
>>>> Hi. I wanted to build OpenJDK in windows using cygwin, and I set VC
>>>> compiler path, but due to whitespaces in the path I can't build, with
>>>> the
>>>> following error:
>>>> ```
>>>> configure: Rewriting CC to "/cygdrive/c/progra~2/microsoft visual
>>>> studio/2017/community/vc/tools/msvc/14.13.26128/bin/hostx86/x64/cl"
>>>> checking resolved symbolic links for CC... no symlink
>>>> configure: The C compiler (located as /cygdrive/c/progra~2/microsoft
>>>> visual
>>>> studio/2017/community/vc/tools/msvc/14.13.26128/bin/hostx86/x64/cl)
>>>> does
>>>> not seem to be the required microsoft compiler.configure: error: A
>>>> microsoft compiler is reconfigure: The result from running it was:
>>>> "/home/SuNova/jdk/build/.configure-support/generated-configure.sh: line
>>>> 35050: /cygdrive/c/progra~2/microsoft: No such file or directory"
>>>> configure exiting with result code 1
>>>> ```
>>>> Well it's not in my hands to set compiler path while installing VS2017
>>>> and
>>>> it does this automatically, so what can I do in this case?
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> --
>>>> Sometimes the best results can be achieved in the worst conditions
>>>> Wish you the bests :)
>>>> Alireza
>>>>
>>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> Sometimes the best results can be achieved in the worst conditions
>> Wish you the bests :)
>> Alireza
>>
>


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Sometimes the best results can be achieved in the worst conditions
Wish you the bests :)
Alireza