Re: Windows configure "issues"

2013-05-24 Thread David Chase
FYI, progress report. No additional changes to the build, but the instructions may require tweaking. Did manage successful builds without closed subdirectories, using VS2012 and DirectX 2010. Required installation+build of Freetype using instructions from Volker's blog, adapted slightly for up

Re: [OpenJDK 2D-Dev] Somewhat wonkier Windows problem

2013-05-24 Thread Vadim Pakhnushev
Hi, There is a bug filed for exactly this reason: http://bugs.sun.com/view_bug.do?bug_id=8008022 I was building JDK 7 and 8 with DXSDK 2010 for almost a year without any problems, and I don't see why there should be any, the core DXSDK API hasn't changed. The change proposed by David is almost

RFR: 8014074: Building hotspot with ccache in new build is very slow with empty cache.

2013-05-24 Thread Erik Joelsson
This patch to configure disables precompiled headers in hotspot when ccache is in use. Background is in this mail (and the bug report): http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/build-dev/2013-April/008772.html In short, build time is shortened considerably both with an empty and a perfect cache

RFR: 8015377: Support using compiler devkits on Linux

2013-05-24 Thread Erik Joelsson
Official compiler and OS versions for building OracleJDK are being evaluated. A wanted feature is to be able to separate compiler version from OS version for the linux build, as is already the case for all other platforms. This could be achieved by creating portable self contained compiler bund

Re: Somewhat wonkier Windows problem

2013-05-24 Thread David Chase
Note that my little patch is in addition to everything that Tim Bell has in his patch to allow building with VS2012 Express, and I haven't tested this yet with VS2010 Express, but I will shortly. And the point is exactly to allow someone outside Oracle to download OpenJDK and to build on Windows

Re: Somewhat wonkier Windows problem

2013-05-24 Thread Erik Joelsson
On 2013-05-24 11:41, Anthony Petrov wrote: [ adding 2d-dev@ ] On 05/24/2013 11:23 AM, Erik Joelsson wrote: On 2013-05-23 20:10, David Chase wrote: One change to add (a by-hand "diff") to common/autoconf/toolchain_windows.m4 : AC_MSG_CHECKING([for DirectX SDK lib dir]) if test "x$with_

Re: Somewhat wonkier Windows problem

2013-05-24 Thread Anthony Petrov
[ adding 2d-dev@ ] On 05/24/2013 11:23 AM, Erik Joelsson wrote: On 2013-05-23 20:10, David Chase wrote: One change to add (a by-hand "diff") to common/autoconf/toolchain_windows.m4 : AC_MSG_CHECKING([for DirectX SDK lib dir]) if test "x$with_dxsdk_lib" != x; then DXSDK_LIB_PATH="$wi

Re: Somewhat wonkier Windows problem

2013-05-24 Thread Erik Joelsson
On 2013-05-23 20:10, David Chase wrote: One change to add (a by-hand "diff") to common/autoconf/toolchain_windows.m4 : AC_MSG_CHECKING([for DirectX SDK lib dir]) if test "x$with_dxsdk_lib" != x; then DXSDK_LIB_PATH="$with_dxsdk_lib" elif test "x$OPENJDK_TARGET_CPU" = "xx86_64"; t