On 05/04/2014 08:50 PM, Ludovic HOCHET wrote:
I finally got it to work. When running on 64-bit Windows, you have to
specify --with-target-bits=32, otherwise building with Visual Studio Express
will fail. It's obvious in retrospect, but somewhat difficult to figure
out, considering that ./confi
On Fri, May 2, 2014 at 4:19 PM, Florian Weimer wrote:
> On 04/30/2014 07:00 PM, Volker Simonis wrote:
>
>> But why can't you install Cygwin and the free Microsoft Express/SDK
>> compilers and do a native build.
>
>
> I finally got it to work. When running on 64-bit Windows, you have to
> specify
On 04/30/2014 07:00 PM, Volker Simonis wrote:
But why can't you install Cygwin and the free Microsoft Express/SDK
compilers and do a native build.
I finally got it to work. When running on 64-bit Windows, you have to
specify --with-target-bits=32, otherwise building with Visual Studio
Expre
On 05/02/2014 08:26 AM, Ivan Krylov wrote:
> Suppose you are working on a
cross-platform bug or feature. You want to make sure that the fix works
on Windows as well. I would think that testing the fix with
cross-compiled build would be insufficient for the reasons that Volker
lists. If the produ
What would this give in practical terms? Suppose you are working on a
cross-platform bug or feature. You want to make sure that the fix works
on Windows as well. I would think that testing the fix with
cross-compiled build would be insufficient for the reasons that Volker
lists. If the produced
On Wed, Apr 30, 2014 at 6:31 PM, Florian Weimer wrote:
> On 04/30/2014 06:16 PM, Volker Simonis wrote:
>
>> The first one is to make the OpenJDK compile on Windows with the MinGW
>> toolchain (instead of Cygwin). This currently doesn't work out of the
>> box but is relatively easy to achieve (see
On 04/30/2014 06:16 PM, Volker Simonis wrote:
The first one is to make the OpenJDK compile on Windows with the MinGW
toolchain (instead of Cygwin). This currently doesn't work out of the
box but is relatively easy to achieve (see for example "8022177:
Windows/MSYS builds broken"
https://bugs.ope
Hi Florian,
there are two different points to consider here.
The first one is to make the OpenJDK compile on Windows with the MinGW
toolchain (instead of Cygwin). This currently doesn't work out of the
box but is relatively easy to achieve (see for example "8022177:
Windows/MSYS builds broken"
ht
I noticed that cross-building Windows binaries is currently not
supported. It seems that Hotspot in particular assumes that the host
and target operating systems are the same (for examples, Linux-to-Linux
cross builds are support). Assuming I can get it to work within the
current build system
