Cross-compiling OpenJDK

Florian Weimer fweimer at redhat.com
Wed Apr 30 15:07:35 UTC 2014


On 04/30/2014 02:34 PM, Erik van Pienbroek wrote:

> I guess with 'native' you mean a native Windows environment, correct?
> When you try to build libraries using MSVC then you'll end up with .dll
> and .lib files. These .lib files are import libraries which are
> incompatible with the ones generated by gcc (mingw). Therefore we only
> provide .dll.a files in Fedora and no .lib files.

Oh, this is kind of surprising.  I'll treat these files like .lib files 
in the build system nevertheless, and we'll see how that will work out.

It turns out that all the issues I encountered so far are really just 
very minor, compared to what's coming up. :-/

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Florian Weimer / Red Hat Product Security Team


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