Re: Help building under Windows7 64-bit

2010-06-08 Thread Kelly O'Hair
On Jun 7, 2010, at 7:26 PM, cowwoc wrote: Hi Kelly, kelly.ohair-2 wrote: Note that Windows7 is a bit of an unknown to use as far as being a build machine, it should work, but in general, the formal 32bit builds of jdk7 use older Windows releases, e.g. 2000 and soon that newer one "XP" ;^)

Re: Help building under Windows7 64-bit

2010-06-08 Thread Andrew John Hughes
On 8 June 2010 15:20, Dalibor Topic wrote: > Andrew John Hughes wrote: >> This seems to be common with ex-proprietary codebases; I remember >> having major issues building Firefox back in the day, and some of the >> worst build systems I can think of other than OpenJDK are OpenOffice >> and Chromi

Re: Help building under Windows7 64-bit

2010-06-08 Thread Dalibor Topic
Andrew John Hughes wrote: > This seems to be common with ex-proprietary codebases; I remember > having major issues building Firefox back in the day, and some of the > worst build systems I can think of other than OpenJDK are OpenOffice > and Chromium... Cross-platform build systems for native cod

Re: Help building under Windows7 64-bit

2010-06-08 Thread Andrew John Hughes
On 8 June 2010 09:26, Dalibor Topic wrote: > cowwoc wrote: >> There's no good reason for Windows builds to be this difficult... > > One of the major good reasons, in my personal, biased opinion, > is that Windows, contrary to Linux or OpenSolaris, lacks a central > software repository with all the

Re: Help building under Windows7 64-bit

2010-06-08 Thread Andrew John Hughes
On 7 June 2010 20:21, Kelly O'Hair wrote: > > Note that Windows7 is a bit of an unknown to use as far as being a build > machine, it should work, but in > general, the formal 32bit builds of jdk7 use older Windows releases, e.g. > 2000 and soon that newer one "XP" ;^) > You are trying a 64bit buil

Re: Help building under Windows7 64-bit

2010-06-08 Thread Dalibor Topic
cowwoc wrote: > There's no good reason for Windows builds to be this difficult... One of the major good reasons, in my personal, biased opinion, is that Windows, contrary to Linux or OpenSolaris, lacks a central software repository with all the necessary dependencies for a build that would make