I don’t think anybody disagrees, in principle, with what you’re saying; in reality, though, that’s just adding one more thing to the long list of TODOs that the build team have in front of them, and I wouldn’t hold my breath waiting for it to happen. They need to complete the move to Mercurial first, for starters, before any kind of major surgery to the build process could even be contemplated.
Now, if you wanted to take that on as a project of your own, I’m sure they’d love the help… :-) But realistically speaking, I don’t think the process is going to get much simpler by moving to Ant; with Make you configure your settings through environment variables, with Ant it’s through properties (either passed on the command-line or in a .properties file), but the same variables still need to be configured. I’m not sure switching to Ant makes it any simpler or easier (except for building from an IDE). I know that parts of the build are already IDE-friendly, as over on the compiler list they talk about a NetBeans-friendly build setup that seems to be working for people. (I haven’t tried it.) Ted Neward Java, .NET, XML Services Consulting, Teaching, Speaking, Writing HYPERLINK "http://www.tedneward.com"http://www.tedneward.com From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Alexander Schunk Sent: Thursday, August 16, 2007 8:19 AM To: build-dev@openjdk.java.net Subject: OpenJDK: using ant instead of make Hi, i have tried to build openjdk on XP with the buildenv.bat used by Dan and my settings but i am missing the freetype lib from Igor so if anyone cand send me this lib i would feel great. Also I think it would be easier to build openjdk on windows if we use ant instead of make. The first obvious advantage ist that you can integrate it into an IDE and you only need to run the ant script. So besides improving the buildenv.bat i would suggest porting the make file to an ant skript for the windows plattform and i also was playing with the idea to set up a working environment for all XP plattforms. Currently every one needs to set up his own build environment until has has set the corresponding vars. I think it should be easier to have a programm or make it automatic to set these vars on every windows plattform. May be an installer like programm could do it using a wizard. - Alex No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.5.476 / Virus Database: 269.11.19/955 - Release Date: 8/15/2007 4:55 PM No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.5.484 / Virus Database: 269.12.0/957 - Release Date: 8/16/2007 1:46 PM
