>>
>> 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 Requiring outdated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
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:
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
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
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
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
> 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.
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:
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" ==