Building OpenJDK 8 on Windows 7 SP1
The OpenJDK 8 build process on Windows platform included major improvements compared to Version 7. Despite that, the build environment setup is still much more complex than on Linux and Mac OS X. Much of the complexity of the build comes from its usage of a Unix-like build environment through Cygwin tools.
The official compiler requirement for i586 builds is Microsoft Visual Studio C++ 2010 Professional Edition. The Express Edition of Visual Studio 2010 may also be used for the x86 build. For x86_64 builds, instead of Visual Studio 2010 Professional Edition, we will use the Microsoft Windows SDK Version 7.1 for Windows 7. This SDK is available for free from the Microsoft website. It uses the same compiler as ...
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