Supported Build Platforms

Officially and community supported build platforms

Support for building on different platforms come in two varieties: official support and community support.

Oracle defines a number of official build platforms, with carefully specified versions of operating systems, compilers and other build tools. If you report a failure to build on any of these platforms, the report will be processed with high priority from the build team in Oracle. Under normal circumstances, a build on any of these platforms will always succeed.

In addition to the official build platforms, OpenJDK can normally be built on many more platforms. For these platforms, there is no guarantee that the build will succeed. The Oracle build team can help to solve some problems encountered, but only on a best-effort basis. In addition to the Oracle build team, the OpenJDK community at large is welcome to help with making OpenJDK compile on these platforms.

The official and community supported build platforms are listed below. Note that build support is different for different versions of the JDK. We welcome updates from the community to the list of community supported platforms. If you have succeeded (or not!) in building OpenJDK on a platform that is substantially different from the ones already listed, please document your experience in the list.

JDK 9 official build platforms

OS and CPU	OS Type/Vendor	OS Version	Compiler/Toolchain Type/Vendor	Compiler/Toolchain Version	Notes
Linux x86 and x86_64	Oracle Enterprise Linux	5.5/6.4	gcc	4.8.2	Build platform is OEL 6.4 but using sysroot (headers and libs) from 5.5
Solaris sparcv9 and x86_64	Solaris	10u6/11.1	Oracle Solaris Studio	12.3	Build platform is Solaris 11.1 but using sysroot (headers and libs) from 10u6
Mac OS X x86_64	Mac OS X	10.9.2 (Mavericks)	XCode / clang	5.1.1
Windows x86_64	Windows	Server 2008 R2	Microsoft Visual Studio	2010 SP1	Also for creating 32-bit builds.

JDK 9 community supported build platforms

Legend for status: Works correctly Works partially or workaround(s) needed Do not work

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Platform	OS Type/Vendor and Version	Compiler/Toolchains Type/Vendor and Version	Notes / Workarounds
Ubuntu x86 and x86_64	Ubuntu 14.04	gcc 4.8.2	Works flawlessly
Ubuntu x86 and x86_64	Ubuntu 13.10	gcc 4.8.1	Works flawlessly
Mac OS X Yosemite	Mac OS X 10.10 (Yosemite)	XCode 6.1	Needs separate installation of freetype

JDK 8 official build platforms

OS and CPU	OS Type/Vendor	OS Version	Compiler/Toolchain Type/Vendor	Compiler/Toolchain Version	Notes
Linux x86 and x86_64	Fedora	9	gcc	4.3.0
Solaris sparcv9 and x86_64	Solaris	10u6	Oracle Solaris Studio	12.1
Mac OS X x86_64	Mac OS X	10.7 (Lion)	Xcode / gcc	4.6.2
Windows x86_64	Windows	Server 2008 R2	Microsoft Visual Studio	2010 SP1	Also for creating 32-bit builds.

JDK 8 community supported build platforms