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Note that only Mac OS X 10.7.3 and higher 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. As of 1-Jan-2012 there are no plans to introduce 10.7-only APIs into the codebase.

Prerequisites to build

• Hardware: Any 64-bit capable Intel Mac
  • RAM: 4GB
• Minimum OS version: Mac OS X 10.7.3
• Xcode: 4.1 or later from the Mac App Store (free download)

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export CPATH="/usr/X11/include"

* Steps for incremental building

3. Smoke Test

build/macosx-universal/j2sdk-image/bin/java -version

4. Install

mkdir -p ~/Library/Java/JavaVirtualMachines
cp -R build/macosx-universal/j2sdk-bundle/jdk1.7.0.jdk ~/Library/Java/JavaVirtualMachines

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$JAVA_HOME/bin/java -jar /Developer/Extras/Java/JFC/SwingSet2/SwingSet2.jar

6. Test

Download jtreg to run the tests in the /jdk/test directory.

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File new bugs at http://bugreport.sun.com/bugreport/. Please check out the bug reporting guidelines if you haven't filed against the project before.

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