JCov Tool Build Instructions
This page describes how to build the JCov tool binary. Some notes before you get started:
- In order to contribute code to the project you must have a contributor role. See OpenJDK Governance for information about the different community roles.
- For a description of how the JCov tool repository is organized, read JCov Tools Repository Structure.
- The JCov Tool Developer's Guide describes how the source code is organized and provides important information for developers who want to modify the code.
- The JCov Tool Source Code Description describes how the JCov tool source code is organized.
Table of Contents
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Requirements
The JCov tool build requires the technologies listed in the following table.
Technology | Where to Get It |
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Ant version 1.6.5 or later | http://ant.apache.org/ |
JDK version 5.0 | http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.5.0/ |
Checking out the source
The JCov tool repository is located on OpenJDK servers, in the CodeTools Project. It is stored in mercurial vcs, and can be uploaded from mercurial via the following command:
% hg clone http://hg.openjdk.java.net/code-tools/jcov
Configure and Run the Build
The following steps describe how to build SigTest tool. These instructions assume that your SigTest tool local working copy is named sigtest
.
- Set up and configure the JDK 5.0.
- Download and install the JDKs.
- Set the environment variable JAVA_HOME to point to the JDK 5.0.
- Set up and configure the Ant software.
- Download and install the Ant software.
- Set your execution path so that it contains the
ant
command. For example: ANT-dist-path/bin/ant
- Make
jcov/build
the current directory. - Edit the
jcov/build/build.properties
file.- The
jdk5.home
property specifies where the JDK 5.0 is located.
- The
- Execute the
ant
command.
The output of the build (jcov-<VERSION>-build directory) contains the following files and subdirectories:
jcov-<VERSION>.zip
-- JCov distribution file. Contains examples, javadocs,jcov.jar
and basic documentation files.release/
-- Unpacked JCov distribution.temp/
-- Temporary build directory.
Additional Build Targets
The following additional targets are available. You might wish to identify these targets to your IDE (for example, NetBeans).
Build Target | Description |
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build (default) | Builds all binaries, doc and distributions. |
clean | Removes the entire build directory. |
help | Prints the usage message. |
bin | Produces binaries. |
devbuild | Produces binaries and javadocs. |
javadoc | Produces javadocs. |
test | Performs sanity test. |