Darwin10Build

Created by J. Duke, last modified on Jul 28, 2010

Building the BSD port of OpenJDK, Java 1.7 on Max OS X 10.6.4

This content began its life at http://confluence.concord.org/display/CCTR/Build+OpenJDK+Java+1.7.0+on+Mac+OS+X+10.5, but should be annotated and extended as we learn more. See the BSD-Port mailing list for information.

Dependencies

SoyLatte 32-bit Java 1.6 binaries

One can use Landon Fuller's SoyLatte 32-bit Java 1.6 binaries to build the OpenJDK bsd port. After downloading the binaries, copy the whole directory to /usr/local/soylatte16-i386-1.0.3

Test the SoyLatte install:

$ /usr/local/soylatte16-i386-1.0.3/bin/java -version
java version "1.6.0_03-p3"
Java(TM) SE Runtime Environment (build 1.6.0_03-p3-landonf_19_aug_2008_14_55-b00)
Java HotSpot(TM) Server VM (build 1.6.0_03-p3-landonf_19_aug_2008_14_55-b00, mixed mode)

Mercurial

If you have MacPorts installed:

$ sudo port install mercurial +bash_completion

Otherwise you will need to download the latest version and install it.

Test the mercurial install:

$ hg --version
Mercurial Distributed SCM (version 1.1.2)

Copyright (C) 2005-2008 Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com> and others
This is free software; see the source for copying conditions. There is NO
warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.

Forest Extension to Mercurial

Note: The Forest extension does not seem to be actively maintained as noted from the ForestExtension wiki page. Please use Patrick Mézard's clone of hgforest instead (just a couple of fixes to Simon's work):

$ hg clone http://bitbucket.org/pmezard/hgforest-crew

After cloning hgforest-crew add an hgext.forest item with the path to hgforest-crew/forest.py in the extensions section in your ~/.hgrc file.

You will need to create a Mercurial configuration file called .hgrc in your home directory (~/.hgrc). A minimum version requires the following:

$ cat ~/.hgrc
[ui]
username = Stephen Bannasch <stephen.bannasch@gmail.com>
[extensions]
fetch=
forest=/Users/Shared/mercurial/hgforest-crew/forest.py

If you have MacPorts installed, use:

$ sudo port install hg-forest
$ cat ~/.hgrc

[extensions]
forest=
fetch=

FreeType

The build fails with the message:

FreeType version  2.3.0  or higher is required.

Checkout the code using hg/forest.

$ hg fclone http://hg.openjdk.java.net/bsd-port/bsd-port

Here's what my bsd-port dir looks like:

$ cd bsd-port/
$ ls -l
total 528
-rw-r--r--   1 stephen  staff    1503 Dec 15 12:29 ASSEMBLY_EXCEPTION
-rw-r--r--   1 stephen  staff   19241 Dec 15 12:29 LICENSE
-rw-r--r--   1 stephen  staff   16336 Dec 15 12:29 Makefile
-rw-r--r--   1 stephen  staff    1207 Dec 15 12:29 README
-rw-r--r--   1 stephen  staff   87215 Jan 25 23:04 README-builds.html
-rw-r--r--   1 stephen  staff  127532 Dec 15 12:29 THIRD_PARTY_README
drwxr-xr-x   4 stephen  staff     136 Jan 26 00:51 build
-rwxr--r--@  1 stephen  staff     373 Jan 26 03:00 build.sh
drwxr-xr-x  11 stephen  staff     374 Jan 25 23:06 corba
drwxr-xr-x  13 stephen  staff     442 Jan 25 23:06 hotspot
drwxr-xr-x  11 stephen  staff     374 Jan 25 23:06 jaxp
drwxr-xr-x  11 stephen  staff     374 Jan 25 23:06 jaxws
drwxr-xr-x  12 stephen  staff     408 Jan 25 23:07 jdk
drwxr-xr-x  12 stephen  staff     408 Jan 25 23:07 langtools
drwxr-xr-x  18 stephen  staff     612 Dec 15 12:29 make

Build OpenJDK

I added the script build.sh to keep track of the correct build invocation. The version below is adapted from Kurt Millers email here. Edit the paths to fit your dir structure. This script needs to be run with the source command.

$ cat build.sh
# source build.sh
 env \-i PATH=/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/X11/bin \
 make \
 ALT_BOOTDIR=/usr/local/soylatte16-i386-1.0.3/ \
 ALT_FREETYPE_HEADERS_PATH=/usr/X11R6/include \
 ALT_FREETYPE_LIB_PATH=/usr/X11R6/lib \
 ALLOW_DOWNLOADS=true \
 ANT_HOME=/usr/share/ant \
 NO_DOCS=true \
 HOTSPOT_BUILD_JOBS=1

Build openjdk like this:

$ source build.sh

Note: JiBX was required previously, but is no longer required. If you are building an older version of OpenJDK you will need to download JiBX and add the following to your build script:

ALT_JIBX_LIBS_PATH=/Users/jyeary/Library/Java/PrivateExtensions/jibx-1.1.5/lib \

One person reports: "This takes about 10m on my 2.5 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo MacBook Pro." Please check with the BSD-Port mailing list if you encounter problems.

Error Recovery

Try cleaning if you get errors.

Some errors when compiling are fixed by cleaning. You can temporarily add the clean command to the end of build.sh and source it to clean the build products.

Or you can try this suggestion from Kurt Miller:

$ mv build build.del; rm -rf build.del &

X11 is needed for build.

If you have not installed this with Mac OS X, or have deleted it, you need to install it. A copy can be obtained from http://xquartz.macosforge.org/trac/wiki/X112.4.0.

Update the bsd-port directory

If updates have been made to the tree, perhaps to fix a bug, you can update your sources with:

cd bsd-port ; hg fpull -u

Other Build Failures

I am not sure what can be done about this. My build.sh script has "ALT_FREETYPE_HEADERS_PATH=/opt/local/include/freetype2 ALT_FREETYPE_LIB_PATH=/opt/local/lib" and these seem to be where the headers and libraries are located....

WARNING: This build does not include running javadoc.\n
ERROR: FreeType version  2.3.0  or higher is required. \n /bin/mkdir -p /Users/ray/Projects/OpenJDK/bsd-port/build/bsd-i586/btbins
rm -f /Users/ray/Projects/OpenJDK/bsd-port/build/bsd-i586/btbins/freetype_versioncheck
Failed to build freetypecheck.  \n
Exiting because of the above error(s). \n
make: *** [post-sanity] Error 1

Smoketest

If the build completes do a simple test by asking the JVM to print its version info. It should look something like this:

$ ../build/bsd-i586/j2sdk-image/bin/java -version
openjdk version "1.7.0-internal"
OpenJDK Runtime Environment (build 1.7.0-internal-stephen_2009_01_25_23_54-b00)
OpenJDK Server VM (build 14.0-b10, mixed mode)

Then, see how to switch java versions on Mac OS X.

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