2011/10/17 Ulf Zibis <[email protected]>: > So do I really need to buy a VS 2003, or is there some "workaround" with the > Platform SDK on Windows XP?
You might be interested in the build-infra/jdk7 forest. I just posted this to build-infra-dev It builds on WindowsXP, using Visual Studio 2010 Express (free edition). 1) Install Visual Studio. 2) Install cygwin + devel + zip and any other thing the configure script might complain about.' 3) Install freetype from http://gnuwin32.sourceforge.net/packages/freetype.htm and copy libfreetype.dll.a into the more useful name freetype.dll It usually installs in: /cygdrive/c/Program\ Files/GnuWin32 4) From the cygwin shell ./configure --with-jvm-variant=server --disable-javac-multi-core --disable-javac-deps --disable-javac-server --with-freetype=/cygdrive/c/Program\ Files/GnuWin32 5) make 6) ./build/windows-i586-server-release/jdk/bin/javac Test.java ./build/windows-i586-server-release/jdk/bin/java Test Success! Anyone cares to test? However jconsole does not work. As probably any other graphical program. I know some parts that are still missing. :-) Will fix that. If you forget to do the disables above, then the build will be much much slower because of a bug that forces a 2 minute timeout after each repository. To be fixed. //Fredrik
