I agree it is useful to be able to build offline, as I discovered when I
was recently stranded by the Iceland volcano ;-)
You'll also need a jdk7 jaxws bundle. Together, the jaxp and jaxws
bundles replace the use of having a copy of the source code for jaxp and
jaxws in the jdk7 forest. Inst
Raffaello,
As regards being online, you only have to be online if the required
files are not already available on your system. On subsequent builds,
you do not need to be online; or you can download the files ahead of
time and set ALT_DROPS_DIR to the downloaded location.
-- Jon
Raffaello
Jon,
to be clear, I'm usually online, like perhaps everybody interested in
building OpenJDK. But I would still like to have everything on my disk
when I do a build.
I discovered that
https://jaxp.dev.java.net/files/documents/913/147490/jdk7-jaxp-m6.zip
is one location from where downloads are per
This was the easy part, even if it took much too much time.
Now begins the hard part: applying the patches from the Multi Language
Virtual Machine project and trying to build it on Windows. I've done
this some time ago on OpenSolaris and Linux. It was a pain, but somehow
simpler than building the
I have to jump thru most all of those same hoops building OpenJDK 6 on
Win2k with VS2003. Note that building on Linux is much easier and the
build takes less than 20% of the time on the same machine. Also, in
my experience the Bootstrap jdk must be 1.6.0 Update 10. I was
originally trying with U
I'm on Windows Vista 32-bit, SP2, Visual Studio 2008 Professional.
I'm building OpenJDK7 b92.
Mercurial
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Mercurial for Windows in its .msi form is self-contained and doesn't
require an additional Python installation. I've also added the
installation folder to my Windows PATH.
Download t
