We are focusing on the Professional edition first because the free
Express edition does not include the ATL include or lib files.
I'm not an ATL expert, but JDK builds have a dependence on it and it's
probably not going away for quite some time I'm told.
It's quite possible that much of the OpenJDK is very buildable with the
free Express edition, and once we are building with the Professional
edition, someone can see how much is buildable with the Express edition.
-kto
Anthony Petrov wrote:
On 07/29/2008 11:03 PM Erik Trimble wrote:
I certainly can't speak for Sun on this. But, I don't think there is
any immediate plans to use GCC on Windows. It would probably be OK if
someone wanted to try, but I can't imagine it being even remotely
easy. There's just so much stuff dependent on the various Visual
Studio or MS SDK header files, that I'm almost positive you have to
install them to do the build, so why bother with GCC? (even from a
Free Software point of view, if you can't get away from the
proprietary MS SDK/VisStudio, then compiling with GCC rather than the
MS-provided one isn't going to be really any win at all).
Indeed. But we should make it possible to use the free versions of the
MS Visual Studio at least.
--
best regards,
Anthony
