Re: problem building OpenJDK on Windows 7 in langtools

2013-02-04 Thread Kelly O'Hair
Also, use of ant 1.8.4 might work fine, but we have always advised ant 1.7.1. Some of the bug fixes in ant 1.8+ have actually caused a few problems in older ant scripts (perhaps buggy scripts), just so you are warned. Dito with jdk6, we try and use jdk6u18, but newer versions should work, that's

Re: problem building OpenJDK on Windows 7 in langtools

2013-02-04 Thread Kelly O'Hair
All paths supplied to the ALT variables and things like ANT_HOME need to be in the c:/ style paths. Ignore what the ant scripts echo in error messages, or compiler warnings, that's a red herring. So ALT_BOOTDIR in your case needs to be set to C:/OpenJDK/jdk-6u37 and ANT_HOME needs to be C:/Ope

Re: problem building OpenJDK on Windows 7 in langtools

2013-02-04 Thread Martijn Verburg
I'm on my phone so can't check this specific case but we do have slightly more up to date instructions on the adoptopenjdk.java.net wiki for windows builds, so perhaps you can try there. Cheers, Martijn PS: Yes these instructions are coming back to OpenJDK working on that with Dalibor soon On Mo

problem building OpenJDK on Windows 7 in langtools

2013-02-03 Thread Randy Nielsen
I'm trying to build 64 bit java 7 on 64 bit Windows 7 with Cygwin, using instructions from http://hg.openjdk.java.net/jdk7/build/raw-file/tip/README-builds.html I built environment variables in Windows then simply typed "make". I get pass the sanity make sanity but choke fairly early in the la