Re: Windows: Replace VisualStudio with gcc/clang?

2018-03-14 Thread Hendrik Schreiber
>> >> From my perspective, something needs to change, as I found it >> completely impossible to install the old Visual Studio releases the >> JDK demands (and it took ages just to find them). Requiring outdated >> tooling to build the JDK really isn't great. >> >> Stephen >> > > I agree. This

Re: Windows: Replace VisualStudio with gcc/clang?

2018-03-14 Thread Thomas Stüfe
On Tue, Mar 13, 2018 at 11:40 PM, Stephen Colebourne wrote: > On 12 March 2018 at 15:36, Erik Joelsson wrote: > > On 2018-03-12 03:18, Magnus Ihse Bursie wrote: > > Just to comment on this. Microsoft has introduced standalone C++ build > > tools:

Re: Windows: Replace VisualStudio with gcc/clang?

2018-03-13 Thread Stephen Colebourne
On 12 March 2018 at 15:36, Erik Joelsson wrote: > On 2018-03-12 03:18, Magnus Ihse Bursie wrote: > Just to comment on this. Microsoft has introduced standalone C++ build > tools: > > http://landinghub.visualstudio.com/visual-cpp-build-tools > > I haven't looked into it

Re: Windows: Replace VisualStudio with gcc/clang?

2018-03-12 Thread Thomas Stüfe
On Mon 12. Mar 2018 at 20:19, Magnus Ihse Bursie < magnus.ihse.bur...@oracle.com> wrote: > On 2018-03-12 17:13, Thomas Stüfe wrote: > > I wonder how much of the perceived difficulty of Windows as build platform > is really the fault of Visual Studio. I find it quite easy to install. > > But the

Re: Windows: Replace VisualStudio with gcc/clang?

2018-03-12 Thread Magnus Ihse Bursie
On 2018-03-12 17:13, Thomas Stüfe wrote: I wonder how much of the perceived difficulty of Windows as build platform is really the fault of Visual Studio. I find it quite easy to install. But the required Cygwin install could be better documented: I have a text file somewhere with all

Re: Windows: Replace VisualStudio with gcc/clang?

2018-03-12 Thread Thomas Stüfe
I wonder how much of the perceived difficulty of Windows as build platform is really the fault of Visual Studio. I find it quite easy to install. But the required Cygwin install could be better documented: I have a text file somewhere with all required packets, but I do not know if an official

Re: Windows: Replace VisualStudio with gcc/clang?

2018-03-12 Thread Magnus Ihse Bursie
> 12 mars 2018 kl. 16:36 skrev Erik Joelsson : > > >> On 2018-03-12 03:18, Magnus Ihse Bursie wrote: >> Question: Is the Visual Studio Express >> (https://www.visualstudio.com/vs/visual-studio-express/) such a hassle to >> install? > Just to comment on this.

Re: Windows: Replace VisualStudio with gcc/clang?

2018-03-12 Thread Erik Joelsson
On 2018-03-12 03:18, Magnus Ihse Bursie wrote: Question: Is the Visual Studio Express (https://www.visualstudio.com/vs/visual-studio-express/) such a hassle to install? Just to comment on this. Microsoft has introduced standalone C++ build tools:

Re: Windows: Replace VisualStudio with gcc/clang?

2018-03-12 Thread Magnus Ihse Bursie
Hi Hendrik, This sounds like something that should be discussed on build-dev, rather than jdk-dev. Short answer to your question: There's no technical reason why it would not be possible to use clang or gcc on Windows. However, the code is full of assumptions that "compiling on Windows" ==