Re: Windows Build setupTools

One of the reasons I would like to eliminate Cygwin is that I believe it causes more problems than it is worth. For example, lat time I check, there was a bunch of code in the build scripts to hack paths because Cygwin apparently wants non-Windows paths on Windows. It’s the “let’s pretend we

Re: Windows Build setupTools

I did not try Tom's build instructions however I can contribute that having Cygwin on Windows 7 and following the build instructions as posted on the JavaFX build instructions page is not suffcient to result in a successful build.  The exact error messages I was receiving I posted earlier .  

Re: Windows Build setupTools

Ah I see now - the properties were not being re-generated simply because the file windows_tools.properties already existed and "gradle clean" was not working because I'm not on Cygwin. Sorry for the noise. On Thu, Dec 21, 2017 at 1:08 AM, Michael Ennen wrote: > Thanks for

Re: Windows Build setupTools

Thanks for the tip, Tom. I understand that Cygwin is a dependency of building on Windows but didn't know that the properties are only configured on a cygwin shell. I have a pseudo-goal of removing the Cygwin dependency from building OpenJFX on Windows and I wonder why Cygwin is necessary for

Re: Windows Build setupTools

Hi Michael, I did not had to setup any special variables and documented my steps at https://github.com/BestSolution-at/openjfx-build. I had trouble myself initially but the reason was that I ran the "gradle sdk" command from within a MSDOS-Shell but you really need to run it within cygwin.

Windows Build setupTools

Some people were reporting that Windows builds are difficult to setup. I think this is due to the fact that the call to setupTools in buildSrc/win.gradle is in fact not working correctly. Invoking buildSrc/genVSproperties.bat directly prints the correct properties. However adding some debugging