On Wed, Feb 14, 2018 at 2:16 PM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz < glaub...@physik.fu-berlin.de> wrote:
> On 02/14/2018 02:07 PM, Thomas Stüfe wrote: > >> Does it have to be Cygwin though? >> >> >> Yes. I love cygwin. You can put it into fullscreen and pretend you have a >> very slow Linux machine :) But seriously, it is very stable and mature, >> would not like at all to change my environment. >> > > Yes, but, if I remember correctly, the problem is that anything built > with Cygwin always requires Cygwin to be present to be able to run. > > We do not build with cygwin. We just use the cygwin tool chain (bash, make etc) to run the make. Compiler tool chain is still Visual Studio (hence the original question). > You always have to carry the runtime around if I remember correctly. > > Maybe if you use cygwin gcc, but the standard openjdk build on Windows does not. There was someone on the mailing list attempting to build with gcc, if I remember correctly. If you are right, this would be an argument against such a build. > On Windows I usually install the "git bash for Windows" package or >> whatever >> it's called and it gives me a nice bash command prompt with a working >> git >> and bash environment. You can then call the environment scripts from >> there. >> >> >> Can you do a full openjdk build with that? >> > I haven't tried OpenJDK. But in my previous company we did heavy Qt > development > with git bash for Windows and any additional external libraries that were > required > could usually be installed manually. It required some elbow grease, but at > least > the resulting binaries were regular Win32 applications which didn't > require any > particular runtime environment to be present except for the DLLs the > binaries > were linked against. Neither do ours, see above. cygwin basically gives you apt-get for windows. A very well maintained repository of any tool you potentially need. In addition to the pure build tool, I use ksh, diff tools, vim, mercurial, git, ... from cygwin. That completeness together with the stability is very useful. (So, if any Redhat people read this, thank you for cygwin :-) ..Thomas > > > Adrian > > -- > .''`. John Paul Adrian Glaubitz > : :' : Debian Developer - glaub...@debian.org > `. `' Freie Universitaet Berlin - glaub...@physik.fu-berlin.de > `- GPG: 62FF 8A75 84E0 2956 9546 0006 7426 3B37 F5B5 F913 >
