On Mon, 13 Jul 2026 10:39:02 GMT, Matthias Baesken <[email protected]> wrote:

>> Currently we still link the jvm lib on Windows with psapi.
>> But this seems to be unnecessary these days.
>> If we want to use the older API, we can compile with -DPSAPI_VERSION=1 and 
>> link psapi; but this is not done for hotspot.
>> (btw it's done for some jdk libs :
>> 
>> https://github.com/openjdk/jdk/blob/6e5bfcc6450512b4b974ed4afa067547552a0847/make/modules/jdk.attach/Lib.gmk#L35
>> https://github.com/openjdk/jdk/blob/6e5bfcc6450512b4b974ed4afa067547552a0847/make/modules/jdk.management/Lib.gmk#L35
>> 
>> but not in the hotspot build).
>> 
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> Matthias Baesken has updated the pull request incrementally with one 
> additional commit since the last revision:
> 
>   Remove psapi linkage from other libs too

Yes looks good.
Title just "Remove psapi.lib" ?

There is another mention in 
make/ide/visualstudio/hotspot/src/classes/build/tools/projectcreator/WinGammaPlatformVC10.java
...which is no doubt harmless, could be left or removed.  No problem with 
leaving if this is not something any of us are using/testing.

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PR Review: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/31846#pullrequestreview-4735364874

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