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/ )
   
9. Move to the new directory
   

   cd /cygdrive/c/dev/jdk9

10. Get the remainder of the source
    

    ./get_source.sh 

11. Force the permissions
    

    chmod -R u+rwxs .

    (otherwise some files get access denied errors)
12. Run the auto-conf script
    

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

13. Time for cooking
    

    make images

14. 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

15. 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