On May 6, 2010, at 2:53 AM, Raffaello Giulietti wrote:
In summary, this means that the "official" building instructions are
misleading with regard to Windows, to say the least.
That is correct.
I'm not used nor do I like to teach professionals how to do their
jobs,
but what about adding
In summary, this means that the "official" building instructions are
misleading with regard to Windows, to say the least.
I'm not used nor do I like to teach professionals how to do their jobs,
but what about adding a clear warning on the README directed to people
like me trying to build OpenJDK7
This has been noticed. Hence the bug. AWT suggested the fix below
I expect to have this fix pushed along with some other work, if not
sooner, but
you can apply it yourself for now.
-phil.
diff --git a/src/windows/native/sun/windows/awt_DnDDS.cpp
b/src/windows/native/sun/windows/awt_DnDDS.cpp
Many months back we were very close to formally converting to Visual
Studio 2008 (VS2008),
in the process of getting ready, I updated the README-builds.html file
to reflect VS2008 use
(at http://hg.openjdk.java.net/jdk7/build/raw-file/tip/README-builds.html)
.
That was a mistake on my part,
I'm on Vista 32-bit and have VisualStudio 2008 Professional installed.
After some days hunting for backslashes, spaces and colons in paths, I
now encounter a compilation error that seems to be known
(http://bugs.sun.com/bugdatabase/view_bug.do;jsessionid=cc2b5a48cddee8e8cdbb6795b07?bug_id=6936319)
