Hi! just to inform whever might be3 interested that I solved the problem. Well, more specifically, I fetched the OpenJDK Cookbook from Packt Publishing and installed a fresh copy of Windows 7 Home Premium SP1 I had lying around on a new VM.
I then installed the following: - cygwin 32 bit version 2.6 (had to change common/autoconf/basics_windows.m4 version check, replaced 1.7 by 2.6) with curl, wget, autogen, automake, autoconf, m4, make, zip, unzip, procps-ng, emacs, binutils - Microsoft Windows 7 SDK with .NET Framework 3.5 (probably not necessary, it did not really work, got errors about Visual SDtudio environment being incomplete). - Microsoft .NET Framework 4.0 (the one from the Visual Studio installer hangs on setup) - Visual Studio 10 C++ Express from http://download.microsoft.com/download/1/E/5/1E5F1C0A-0D5B-426A-A603-1798B951DDAE/VS2010Express1.iso) - directX 9.0 SDK summer 2004 from some web location though i have no idea what it is needed for - 32 bit oracle JDK 8u111 from oracle download page to c:/openjdk/bootjdk - freetype 32 bit downloaded from the GnuWin32 project following ./configure instructions I then configured the jdk8 sources with #!/bin/bash ./configure --with-boot-jdk=c:/openjdk/bootjdk \ --with-target-bits=32 \ --enable-unlimited-crypto \ --with-cacerts-file=c:/openjdk/cacerts \ --disable-debug-symbols \ --disable-zip-debug-info \ --with-milestone=conectalex \ --with-build-number=666 \ --disable-ccache ccache produced some strange errors in jdk build, so I had to disable it. after that, the jdk compiles and java seems to work... regards Peter -- peter kollner <pe...@asgalon.net>
