Re: encumbrances update

2007-08-09 Thread Kelly O'Hair
Ted Neward wrote: Well... several thoughts come to mind: (1) The fact that OpenJDK was not aiming to be buildable on Windows from the beginning was definitely NOT clear, at least not to me. (2) The fact that it would be viewed as acceptable to release the source in an unbuildable form on any o

RE: ted's build on windows succeeded!

2007-08-09 Thread Dan Fabulich
Ted Neward wrote: (5) It's kinda all moot--I did a fresh re-fetch from SVN for the b17 drop, used Ivan's build of the freetype DLL, and it all builds, both debug and fastdebug. So yes, Dan, somebody outside of Sun managed to make it work on Windows. :-) Congratulations! Now I'm going to try

RE: encumbrances update

2007-08-09 Thread Ted Neward
Well... several thoughts come to mind: (1) The fact that OpenJDK was not aiming to be buildable on Windows from the beginning was definitely NOT clear, at least not to me. (2) The fact that it would be viewed as acceptable to release the source in an unbuildable form on any of the "supported" plat

Re: encumbrances update

2007-08-09 Thread Kelly O'Hair
Dan Fabulich wrote: Kelly O'Hair wrote: It was never expected that the initial OpenJDK source drops would be buildable on Windows. [...] So that fact that it has never built on Windows was well known, I thought. Actually, that comes as a (small) surprise to me. When I asked about Window

Re: encumbrances update

2007-08-09 Thread Dan Fabulich
Kelly O'Hair wrote: It was never expected that the initial OpenJDK source drops would be buildable on Windows. [...] So that fact that it has never built on Windows was well known, I thought. Actually, that comes as a (small) surprise to me. When I asked about Windows build problems at Mar

Re: encumbrances update

2007-08-09 Thread Kelly O'Hair
I thought it was clear from the beginning, perhaps I wasn't making this as well known as I should. If so, my aplogies. It was never expected that the initial OpenJDK source drops would be buildable on Windows. We focused on Linux and OpenSolaris and purposely left out Windows due to the t2k issue

Re: My windows build story

2007-08-09 Thread Kelly O'Hair
You have to specifically ask for the cygwin version of awk when installing cygwin, you may be getting some other awk. -kto Igor Nekrestyanov wrote: Hi, I tried to build openjdk on windows (WinXP) using home PC and following instructions from openjdk.dev.java.net. I was able to do it. There w

Re: encumbrances update

2007-08-09 Thread Anthony Petrov
Hmm... On 08/01/2007 10:58 PM Dan Fabulich wrote: It is believed to build and work on all platform combinations : windows, linux, solaris, 32 and 64 bit, but testing has focused on the 32 bit versions. "believed to build"? Has anyone yet tried doing the standard OpenJDK build on Windows, follo