Goals

Minimum requirements to run

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+ 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

JTReg is not required to build but useful for running regression tests

1. Get the code

hg clone http://hg.openjdk.java.net/jdk8/jdk8
cd jdk8
chmod 755 get_source.sh
./get_source.sh

2. Build

CPATH="/usr/X11/include" LANG=C make ALLOW_DOWNLOADS=true ALT_BOOTDIR=`/usr/libexec/java_home -v 1.7+` HOTSPOT_BUILD_JOBS=`sysctl -n hw.ncpu`

CPATH="/usr/X11/include" LANG=C 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`

* 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/jdk1.8.0.jdk ~/Library/Java/JavaVirtualMachines

5. Run

export JAVA_HOME=`/usr/libexec/java_home --version 1.7+`
$JAVA_HOME/bin/java -version

If you have the Java Developer Package installed:

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

6. Test

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

Bugs!

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.

Questions?

Please join the macosx-port-dev mailing list and ask!

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