On Thu, 9 Jun 2022 11:37:21 GMT, Matthias Baesken <[email protected]> wrote:
> We still handle at a number of places ancient historic _MSC_VER versions of
> Visual Studio releases e.g. pre VS2013 (VS2013 has _MSC_VER 1800).
> This should be cleaned up, as long as it is not 3rd party code that we don't
> want to adjust.
>
> Currently still supported ("valid") VS version are 2017+, see
> https://github.com/openjdk/jdk/blob/master/make/autoconf/toolchain_microsoft.m4
> .
> VALID_VS_VERSIONS="2019 2017 2022"
> Even with adjusted toolchain m4 files, something older than VS2013 (also
> probably older than VS2015) would not be able to build jdk anymore.
LGTM and sounds feasible.
-------------
Marked as reviewed by mdoerr (Reviewer).
PR: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/9105
