Re: Proposal: Upgrade compiler version for Windows

2014-05-14 Thread Ivan Krylov
On 13/05/2014 22:35, Andrew Hughes wrote: - Original Message - I would like to revive this topic. As of now Windows build for OpenJDK6 is broken as of b31. Making it to build with VS2003 would be effectively repeating in some sense the effort that Oracle is doing for the closed-source j

Re: Proposal: Upgrade compiler version for Windows

2014-05-14 Thread Phil Race
OpenJDK 7 was made able to build with the Windows 7 SDK or Visual Studio Express 2010 - both free as in no money charged.. IIRC the latter only had 32 bit compiler so the SDK was required to do 64 bit. So if I was you I'd first target making it work with the SDK for 32 & 64. We couldn't do th