In the past I was able to build part of jdk 8 but that is not currently working although I am able to do a full 32 bit build. I've recently moved from XP to W7 so my environment might not be set up quite right yet. Here's what I do...
// These are done in a bat file before I do any makes set ALT_BOOTDIR=C:/Progra~1/Java/jdk1.7.0_02 set ALT_FREETYPE_HEADERS_PATH=C:/Users/Pete/freetype-2.4.8/include set ALT_FREETYPE_LIB_PATH=C:/Users/Pete/freetype-2.4.8/objs/win32/vc2010 set ANT_HOME=C:/Progra~2/apache-ant-1.7.1 set ALT_MSDEVTOOLS_PATH=C:/Progra~2/MICROS~1/Windows/v7.0A/bin set CLASSPATH= set PATH=C:/WINDOWS/system32;C:/WINDOWS;C:/WINDOWS/System32/Wbem; set CYGWIN=nodosfilewarning cd c:\Users\Pete\cygwin\bin bash --login -i // These are done at the command line eval `bin/vsvars.sh -v10 -32` cd /cygdrive/c/OpenJDK/jdk8/jdk/make/java/awt/ make ARCH_DATA_MODEL=32 FASTDEBUG=true 2>&1 | tee build.log The error I am getting is make: *** No rule to make target `../../../build/windows-i586/btjars/compileproperties.jar', needed by `compile_all_props'. Stop. Since the above has windows-i586 instead of windows-i586-debug it looks like I need to add another variable when invoking make. Pete
