Some issues I see here are that
- the code has lots of things like #ifdef _MSC_VER .. fixable perhaps,
but ..
- the Windows SDK which includes the compiler is needed anyway
- no one is likely to maintain this ..
- Oracle is unlikely to use this for its own builds.
So probably not something Oracle would invest in and not sure who would
do it and keep it working .. whilst ensuring the VC code is still needed.
-phil.
On 11/4/17, 4:26 PM, Andrew Sun wrote:
Hi everyone,
I'm just wondering if OpenJDK could be modified to build on Windows using
MSYS2 (free Windows development environment that includes MinGW-w64 and
GCC). Currently MSYS2's MinGW-w64 toolchain (including GCC) is unsupported
for building OpenJDK, and Visual Studio is required; however, on Linux, GCC
is supported.
Would there be any implications to such a method? If not, I would be very
pleased. MSYS2 uses PKGBUILDs similar to the ones on Arch Linux. Adding a
MinGW-w64 PKGBUILD for mingw-w64-jdk*version*-openjdk would be very
beneficial to the MSYS2 project.
Thanks,
Andrew Sun
