Hi Vitaly, Those instructions are out of date, just my original proposed patch. What we eventually ended up committing is much simpler.
See http://hg.openjdk.java.net/jdk/jdk/file/72f05350b4b3/doc/building.md for the latest instructions. Thanks, -Andrew -----Original Message----- From: build-dev <[email protected]> On Behalf Of David Holmes Sent: Tuesday, April 9, 2019 10:25 PM To: Vitaly Provodin <[email protected]>; [email protected] Subject: Re: bash configure: result from running a microsoft compiler was empty string Hi Vitaly, What do you see if you run: /mnt/c/Tools/VS/2017/Community/VC/Tools/MSVC/14.16.27023/bin/Hostx64/x64/cl.exe directly? Cheers, David On 10/04/2019 1:35 pm, Vitaly Provodin wrote: > Hello, > > I'm trying to compile OpenJDK 13 (using WSL and following this instructions > http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/build-dev/2018-December/024316.html > <http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/build-dev/2018-December/024316.html>), > but when I use: > > $ bash ./configure --with-boot-jdk=/mnt/c/Tools/Java/jdk-11.0.2 \ > --with-tools-dir="C:\Tools\VS\2017\Community\VC\Auxiliary" \ > --with-ucrt-dll-dir="C:\Tools\WindowsKits\10\bin\10.0.17763.0\x64\ucrt” > > it fail, with the following message: > > . . . > configure: Will use user supplied compiler > CC=/mnt/c/Tools/VS/2017/Community/VC/Tools/MSVC/14.16.27023/bin/Hostx6 > 4/x64/cl.exe checking resolved symbolic links for CC... no symlink > configure: The C compiler (located as > /mnt/c/Tools/VS/2017/Community/VC/Tools/MSVC/14.16.27023/bin/Hostx64/x64/cl.exe) > does not seem to be the required microsoft compiler. > configure: The result from running it was: "" > configure: error: A microsoft compiler is required. Try setting > --with-tools-dir. > configure exiting with result code 1 > > It looks like the cause of this failure is in the empty string > > configure: The result from running it was: “" > > Please note I tried the following > - to run vcvars64.bat then start WSL (ubuntu) > - just start WSL (ubuntu) wiothout vcvars64.bat anyway I got the above > message. > > I'm using windows 10 64 bits > > Could you please give me advice what I should do? > > Thank you, > Vitaly >
