Building OpenJFX 9 on Windows with Visual Studio 2013 Community

This post is a step by step to build OpenJFX 9 on Windows (10 64bits). It is a refresh of the "Building OpenJFX on Windows" for the 9 sources and with Visual Studio 2013 (Community here) which is now used by Oracle.

Last updated: 2016-10-08, Mercurial URL change

1. Create a C:\dev directory
2. Download and install JDK 9 b109
3. Delete C:\Program Files\Java\jdk-9\lib\jfxrt.jar as otherwise the build won't succeed 
4. Download Gradle 2.11 and extract it into C:\dev
5. 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

6. Download and install Babun
7. Download and install Mercurial
8. In C:\dev open a standard console
9. Get the sources:
   In the console copy:
   

   hg clone http://hg.openjdk.java.net/openjfx/9/rt/ jfx

   (or hg clone http://hg.openjdk.java.net/openjfx/9-dev/rt/ jfx which is slighly ahead)
   
10. Set up some environment variables:
    Still in the console:
    

    set GRADLE_HOME=C:\dev\gradle-2.11
    

    set JAVA_HOME=C:\Program Files\Java\jdk-9

    set PATH=%PATH%;%JAVA_HOME%\bin;%GRADLE_HOME%\bin;%USERPROFILE%\.babun\cygwin\bin
    

    
    

    
    
11. Build:
    Still in the console:
    

    cd jfx
    gradle

12. Build the JDK (see the full instructions)
    
    
13. In the console that built OpenJFX:
    

    set JIGSAW_HOME=C:\dev\jdk9\build\windows-x86_64-normal-server-release\images\jdk
    
    gradle apps

    then
    

    %JIGSAW_HOME%\bin\java -jar C:\dev\jfx-jake\apps\samples\Ensemble8\dist\Ensemble8.jar

14. Hack...

Using Babun seems to take care of the Cygwin packages that are needed by OpenJFX, those that may not be already installed may be added using:

pact install  <package name>

(an exception being g++: mingw64-x86_64-gcc-g++ )