Re: Choosing which Visual Studio installation to use

2018-02-15 Thread Thomas Stüfe
Hi Erik, On Thu, Feb 15, 2018 at 4:22 PM, Erik Joelsson wrote: > Hello Thomas, > > If you have multiple versions installed, configure will pick the one to > use in order of most supported. To explicitly pick one, you can use > --with-toolchain-version=2010 (or some

Re: Choosing which Visual Studio installation to use

2018-02-15 Thread Erik Joelsson
Hello, Just want to clear some things up around this. We use Cygwin just as a unix emulation layer for running typical unix tools. OpenJDK can only be built on Windows using Visual Studio as the compiler toolchain. We currently don't support any other unix emulation layer. We have had

Re: Choosing which Visual Studio installation to use

2018-02-15 Thread Erik Joelsson
Hello Thomas, If you have multiple versions installed, configure will pick the one to use in order of most supported. To explicitly pick one, you can use --with-toolchain-version=2010 (or some other number) and configure will look for that specific version of Visual Studio. Just pointing to

Re: Choosing which Visual Studio installation to use

2018-02-14 Thread Thomas Stüfe
Hi Michael, On Wed, Feb 14, 2018 at 4:20 PM, Michal Vala wrote: > Hi, > > On 02/14/2018 12:24 PM, Thomas Stüfe wrote: > >> Hi all, >> >> On Windows, if one has multiple VS installations side by side, is it >> possible to choose which Visual Studio installation to use? >> >>

Re: Choosing which Visual Studio installation to use

2018-02-14 Thread Michal Vala
Hi, On 02/14/2018 12:24 PM, Thomas Stüfe wrote: Hi all, On Windows, if one has multiple VS installations side by side, is it possible to choose which Visual Studio installation to use? Note that I start the configure script from within the cygwin shell. OpenJDK configure is reading VS

Re: Choosing which Visual Studio installation to use

2018-02-14 Thread Thomas Stüfe
On Wed, Feb 14, 2018 at 2:16 PM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz < glaub...@physik.fu-berlin.de> wrote: > On 02/14/2018 02:07 PM, Thomas Stüfe wrote: > >> Does it have to be Cygwin though? >> >> >> Yes. I love cygwin. You can put it into fullscreen and pretend you have a >> very slow Linux machine

Re: Choosing which Visual Studio installation to use

2018-02-14 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
On 02/14/2018 02:07 PM, Thomas Stüfe wrote: Does it have to be Cygwin though? Yes. I love cygwin. You can put it into fullscreen and pretend you have a very slow Linux machine :) But seriously, it is very stable and mature, would not like at all to change my environment. Yes, but, if I

Re: Choosing which Visual Studio installation to use

2018-02-14 Thread Thomas Stüfe
On Wed, Feb 14, 2018 at 12:45 PM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz < glaub...@physik.fu-berlin.de> wrote: > On 02/14/2018 12:42 PM, Thomas Stüfe wrote: > >> Yes, that is normally the way - that or just starting the corresponding >> "visual studio command prompt" shell. That is why I was specifying that

Re: Choosing which Visual Studio installation to use

2018-02-14 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
On 02/14/2018 12:42 PM, Thomas Stüfe wrote: Yes, that is normally the way - that or just starting the corresponding "visual studio command prompt" shell. That is why I was specifying that I am running from cygwin shell - the openjdk build somehow chooses that batch script for you, and it would

Re: Choosing which Visual Studio installation to use

2018-02-14 Thread Thomas Stüfe
Hi Adrian, On Wed, Feb 14, 2018 at 12:29 PM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz < glaub...@physik.fu-berlin.de> wrote: > Hi Thomas! > > On 02/14/2018 12:24 PM, Thomas Stüfe wrote: > >> On Windows, if one has multiple VS installations side by side, is it >> possible to choose which Visual Studio

Re: Choosing which Visual Studio installation to use

2018-02-14 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
Hi Thomas! On 02/14/2018 12:24 PM, Thomas Stüfe wrote: On Windows, if one has multiple VS installations side by side, is it possible to choose which Visual Studio installation to use? From my slightly rusted memory regarding Visual Studio, isn't the regular way to choose a certain VS