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Building Java 9 on Windows with Visual Studio 2013 Community

As the JDK moves to Visual Studio 2013 for its toolchain, this version focuses on building Java 9 on Windows (10 64bits) with Visual Studio 2013 (Community). As it takes a few short-cuts, refer to the Java 9 with plain Windows SDK version or/and to the Java 8 version (for using plain Cygwin).

  1. Create a C:\dev\ directory

  2. Download and install Visual Studio 2013 Community

    1. Download (it may be faster to download the ISO)

    2. Install

      • uncheck all the options

      • or download AdminDeployment.xml to C:\dev\temp then start the installation with:

        vs_community.exe /AdminFile C:\dev\temp\AdminDeployment.xml

    3. Add the path to MSBuild to the PATH environement variable (required to build Freetype):

      C:\Program Files (x86)\MSBuild\12.0\Bin

  3. Download and install the Mercurial for Windows 

  4. Download and install Java 8 (if not already done)

  5. Download and install Babun, then use its package manager to install zip :

    pact install zip

  6. Download Freetype source (2.5.5) and extract to C:\dev\freetype-2.5.5

  7. In the Babun console:

    cd /cygdrive/c/dev

  8. Get the root source:

    hg clone http://hg.openjdk.java.net/jdk9/jdk9/

 (or the more bleeding edge http://hg.openjdk.java.net/jdk9/dev/ )

  1. Move to the new directory

    cd /cygdrive/c/dev/jdk9

  2. Get the remainder of the source

    ./get_source.sh 

  3. Force the permissions

    chmod -R u+rwxs .

    (otherwise some files get access denied errors)

  4. Run the auto-conf script

    bash configure –with-freetype-src=/cygdrive/c/dev/freetype-2.5.5

  5. Time for cooking

    make images

  6. Once done, open a new standard Windows console and navigate to

    C:\dev\jdk9\build\windows-x86_64-normal-server-release\images\jdk

    check that java runs:

    bin\java -version

    or for something a bit more visual:

    bin\jconsole

  7. enjoy!

For day to day refresh do the following (in the Babun shell):

  1. Go to the JDK directory

    cd /cygdrive/c/dev/jdk9

  2. Get the sources updates

    ./get_source.sh

  3. Force the permissions

    chmod -R u+rwxs .

  4. Remove the build directory

    rm -rf build/

  5. Rerun the auto-conf script to update the time stamp of the build:

    bash configure –with-freetype-src=/cygdrive/c/dev/freetype-2.5.5

  6. Re-heat

    make images

https://blog.lhochet.dev/posts/2015-05-14-building-java-9-on-windows-with-visual-studio-2013-community/ Ludovic HOCHET