Ilya, I also had trouble with genVSproperties.bat (as did other historically)
This led me to create a Powershell build script which was merged to upstream: https://github.com/openjdk/jfx/blob/master/tools/scripts/build.ps1 I strongly recommend using it when building locally on Windows. On Mon, Oct 7, 2019 at 3:16 PM Ilya Kazakevich < ilya.kazakev...@jetbrains.com> wrote: > Hello. > > I was trying to build jfx for Windows using cygwin. > I launched cygwin from VS prompt with all variables set, but when build > failed, > I realized that ``windows_tools.properties`` is almost empty. > > It happened because ``genVSproperties.bat`` failed to locate my toolchain > and > it explicitly removed my variables! > > REM Clean out the current settings > set INCLUDE= > set LIB= > set LIBPATH= > > Why so? Is not it better to remove this lines and always launch build via > VS prompt? > After all, this is what it was created for) > > Ilya. > -- Michael Ennen
