Re: Proposal: Upgrade compiler version for Windows

2014-02-10 Thread Phil Race
Hi, My goal here was just to point out some of the issues/scope etc so that you and the present openjdk6 maintainers can decide how to proceed. BTW you had written ' to accommodate usage of Visual Studio 2010 " which I read as meaning allow in addition to VS 2003, not replace it. -phil. On 2/10

Re: Proposal: Upgrade compiler version for Windows

2014-02-10 Thread Ivan Krylov
Phil, First, I do have a license for VS2003. And more so, one can by vs2003 for some third party stores, it is just that Microsoft does not sell or support VS2003. The build problem with the compiler version is not my personal one. There is a good point about figuring out what set of builds/t

Re: Proposal: Upgrade compiler version for Windows

2014-02-10 Thread Phil Race
There was a lot of work to the build system and source code to upgrade JDK7 to VS2010. Whilst a good chunk of that work was in closed repositories you will still find a fair amount to do .. As many as we could find/remember about got a 'vs2010' label So the query https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/is

Re: Proposal: Upgrade compiler version for Windows

2014-02-10 Thread Omair Majid
* Ivan Krylov [2014-02-10 13:57]: > The build system for OpenJDK6 for Windows uses Visual Studio 2003. > This is a problem for those who do not have a license as you may not > purchase this software anymore. Ouch. > The proposal is to modify the build systems and somewhat sources to > accommodat

Proposal: Upgrade compiler version for Windows

2014-02-10 Thread Ivan Krylov
Hi Folks, The build system for OpenJDK6 for Windows uses Visual Studio 2003. This is a problem for those who do not have a license as you may not purchase this software anymore. The proposal is to modify the build systems and somewhat sources to accommodate usage of Visual Studio 2010 If that i