Hi Alireza, sorry if my answer (and especially the link which I provided) have been unclear. You don’t have to create any junctions. You just have to enable short (i.e. „8.3“ filenames) for the drive /directory where you have installed Visual Studio. Afterwards you must copy “microsoft visual studio” to a temporary directory and finally copy it back to “microsoft visual studio”. This should create a short name for that directpry.
You can find more information about how to enable/disable short filenames here: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/previous-versions/windows/it-pro/windows-server-2012-R2-and-2012/ff621566(v=ws.11) https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/121007/how-to-disable-8-3-file-name-creation-on-ntfs-partitions Regards, Volker Alireza Mohamadi <dange...@gmail.com> schrieb am Sa. 31. März 2018 um 09:50: > Hi Volker, gratitude for answering my question. > After reading Q&A link you provided I realized how to make junctions but I > don't know which source should be attached to the target? > As you've mentioned `:/cygdrive/c/progra~2/microsoft: No such file or > directory` means there are no links available for "C:\Program Files > (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio", > so I tried > ``` > C:\WINDOWS\system32>mklink /j "C:\progra~2\microsoft~7" "C:\Program Files > (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio" > Junction created for C:\progra~2\microsoft~7 <<===>> C:\Program Files > (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio > ``` > but it seems not working because I get the same error. Can you give some > tips please? Sorry if I'm newbie, I'm just interested in some JEPs and want > to test them in a project to see if I can deploy it later. > Many thanks. > > On Thu, Mar 29, 2018 at 11:55 AM, Volker Simonis <volker.simo...@gmail.com > > wrote: > >> Hi Alireza, >> >> it seems you don’t have short file names enabled for the “Program Files” >> directory. Notice that you have short file names enabled for “c:\” (i.e. >> you have “progra~2”). >> >> You have to first enable short file names for the “Program Files” >> directory (see for example >> >> https://superuser.com/questions/681330/how-to-force-short-name-8dot3-generation >> ). >> >> Afterwards you must copy “microsoft visual studio” to a temporary >> directory and finally copy it back to “microsoft visual studio”. This >> should create a short name for that directory. >> >> Regards, >> Volker >> >> Alireza Mohamadi <dange...@gmail.com> schrieb am Do. 29. März 2018 um >> 06:08: >> >>> Hi. I wanted to build OpenJDK in windows using cygwin, and I set VC >>> compiler path, but due to whitespaces in the path I can't build, with the >>> following error: >>> ``` >>> configure: Rewriting CC to "/cygdrive/c/progra~2/microsoft visual >>> studio/2017/community/vc/tools/msvc/14.13.26128/bin/hostx86/x64/cl" >>> checking resolved symbolic links for CC... no symlink >>> configure: The C compiler (located as /cygdrive/c/progra~2/microsoft >>> visual >>> studio/2017/community/vc/tools/msvc/14.13.26128/bin/hostx86/x64/cl) does >>> not seem to be the required microsoft compiler.configure: error: A >>> microsoft compiler is reconfigure: The result from running it was: >>> "/home/SuNova/jdk/build/.configure-support/generated-configure.sh: line >>> 35050: /cygdrive/c/progra~2/microsoft: No such file or directory" >>> configure exiting with result code 1 >>> ``` >>> Well it's not in my hands to set compiler path while installing VS2017 >>> and >>> it does this automatically, so what can I do in this case? >>> >>> >>> -- >>> Sometimes the best results can be achieved in the worst conditions >>> Wish you the bests :) >>> Alireza >>> >> > > > -- > Sometimes the best results can be achieved in the worst conditions > Wish you the bests :) > Alireza >
