Phil, On 2010-05-19 18:20, Phil Race wrote: >> Kelly, to your knowledge, has the transition to VS2010 been adopted even >> by the formal JDK7 Release Engineering team? >> > > Since you got so far as to find this doc perhaps you could actually read > it. It says : > *BEGIN WARNING*: At this time (Spring/Summer 2010) JDK 7 is starting a > transition to use the newest VS2010 Microsoft compilers. These build > instructions are updated to show where we are going. We have a QA > process to go through before official builds actually use VS2010. So for > now, official builds are still using VS2003. No other compilers are > known to build the entire JDK, including non-open portions. So for now > you should be able to build with either VS2003 or VS2010. We do not > guarantee that VS2008 will work, although there is sufficient makefile > support to make at least basic JDK builds plausible. Visual Studio 2010 > Express compilers are likely to be able to build all the "open" sources, > with only small adjustments, but this has yet to be made to work. Also > we have not yet seen the 7.1 Windows SDK with the 64 bit compilers. *END > WARNING.*
Of course, I actually read it. However, only two weeks ago the same doc reported about VS2008 with no special warning and *that* didn't work that well. So, I'm now much more cautious about the doc, despite its warnings. That's why I preferred to explicitly ask one more time rather than risking to burn my fingers again. But you did a good service to the community by quoting the warning once more.
