xcodebuild necessary on Mac?

[Wang Weijun]

On May 30, 2014, at 10:59, David DeHaven <david.dehaven at oracle.com> wrote:

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>>> I'm curious if only installing the CL tools also installs at least one OS X SDK. If it doesn't then it's not terribly useful, except for maybe porting/building Unix command line tools.
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>> Well, I guess it did. At least jdk9 builds successfully. My new Mavericks is installed on the 2nd disk of my Mac Mini. I guess it shouldn't see the old SDK on the 1st disk. Right?
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>> Where is the SDK located? /System/Library/Frameworks? They are quite some frameworks there.
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> No, the SDKs are in the app bundles. The frameworks in /System used to have headers installed with the developer tools, but Apple is moving away from that. The frameworks themselves are managed by the OS install/update. Maybe the command line tools still install headers there.
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> run this:
> $ find /Library/Developer/CommandLineTools -name '*.sdk'

Nothing.

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> I'm curious to see what's there... If the SDKs are there then we should be able to support building OpenJDK with just the command line tools installed.
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> That won't be the case for closed source though, you still need the full Xcode app installed.

I only build jdk, haven't touched deploy etc.

--Max

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> -DrD-
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