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

Re: Help building under Windows7 64-bit

2010-06-07 Thread cowwoc
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" ;^) > You are trying a 64bit build wi

Re: Help building under Windows7 64-bit

2010-06-07 Thread Kelly O'Hair
Can you provide some detailed instructions so I could add it to the README-builds.html file? -kto On Jun 7, 2010, at 4:11 PM, Lussier, Denis wrote: The latest Freetype sources build quite easily on Windoze (at least on Win32 using VS2003). On 6/7/10, Kelly O'Hair wrote: Note that Window

Re: Help building under Windows7 64-bit

2010-06-07 Thread Lussier, Denis
The latest Freetype sources build quite easily on Windoze (at least on Win32 using VS2003). On 6/7/10, 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 r

Re: Help building under Windows7 64-bit

2010-06-07 Thread Kelly O'Hair
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 build with Visual Studio 10, on Windows 7, an even

Re: Help building under Windows7 64-bit

2010-06-07 Thread cowwoc
Andrew John Hughes wrote: > > I've never built on Windows, nor would I ever want to. But at a > guess, your problem here is that you have spaces in your path to ant. > Move it to something like C:\ant and you'll probably get further. > You are right, but I can't figure out why. Here is the sc

Re: Help building under Windows7 64-bit

2010-06-07 Thread Andrew John Hughes
On 7 June 2010 19:27, cowwoc wrote: > > Hi, > > I am attempting to build OpenJDK under Windows7 64-bit, Visual Studio 2010. > Here is the output of "make sanity": > > -- > ( cd  ./jdk/make && \ >          make sanity HOTSPOT_IMPORT_CHECK=false > JDK_TOPDIR=C:/users/gili/DOCUME~1/jdk7/j