I hope I'm trying to solve a simpler problem, which is just a build, as if I were someone outside Oracle playing with Openjdk. I assume my problems are a subset of the release problem.
David On 2013-05-22, at 6:53 PM, Kelly O'Hair <kellyoh...@gmail.com> wrote: > Windows VS compilers are a pain. Each release has it's own unique runtime > DLLs, which we must deliver with the JDK, so the build process has to know > what that DLL is named, where it is located, and copy it into various places. > > DLLs created by a newer VS will not like the older VS runtime DLLs. > > To make a long story short, changing VS compilers is a royal pain, and not > trivial. > This is why we only recommend VS2010. > > I'm not saying it cannot be done, I'm just saying you should have plenty of > liquor available when you do it. :^( > > -kto
