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Note that only Mac OS X 10.7 will be an Oracle-supported platform. It should continue to run on 10.6.8 + Java for Mac OS X 10.6 Update 6 but that is not guaranteed to be the case forever. As of 1-Jan-2012 we have there are no plans to introduce 10.7-only APIs into the codebase.

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• Hardware: Any 64-bit capable Intel Mac
  • RAM: 4GB, 2GB min
• OS: Mac OS X 10.7
  • Xcode: 4.1 or later from the Mac App Store (free download)
  • Java: "Java for Mac OS X 10.7 Update 1" (open /Applications/Utilities/Java Preferences.app to trigger install)
• OS: Mac OS X 10.6, run Software Update to get to at least 10.6.8 (but see earlier section about supported OS)
  • Xcode: 3.2.6 or later from https://developer.apple.com/downloads/index.action?q=xcode%203.2
  • Java: "Java for Mac OS X 10.6 Update 6" or later from Software Update or https://developer.apple.com/downloads/index.action?q=java
• Mercurial: http://mercurial.berkwood.com/
• Jtreg: http://openjdk.java.net/jtreg/

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make ALLOW_DOWNLOADS=true SA_APPLE_BOOT_JAVA=true ALWAYS_PASS_TEST_GAMMA=true ALT_BOOTDIR=`/usr/libexec/java_home -v 1.6` HOTSPOT_BUILD_JOBS=`sysctl -n hw.ncpu`

• Incremental BuildingSteps for incremental building

3. Smoke Test

build/macosx-universal/j2sdk-image/1.7.0.jdk/Contents/Home/bin/java -version

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On Mac OS X 10.7 use the alternate location for the SwingSet2.jar if you have the Java Developer Package installed.

$JAVA_HOME/bin/java -jar /Library/Java/Demos/JFC/SwingSet2/SwingSet2.jar

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