Mac OS X build errors missing instancetype + further issues just after building jdk.xml.ws

[David DeHaven]

Sorry, I've had my blinders on for a few weeks. What's the original goal here? Are you just trying to build OpenJDK 9 on Mac OS X? If you're using clang in Xcode then it should "just work".

-DrD-

> On Apr 16, 2015, at 6:35 AM, Martijn Verburg <martijnverburg at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Hi David,
> 
> Thanks for your response!  I was using GCC as I had a host of other errors when using clang :-|.  I'll post those in a separate mail for comparison.
> 
> Cheers,
> Martijn
> 
> On 15 April 2015 at 18:22, David DeHaven <david.dehaven at oracle.com> wrote:
> 
> > Mac OS X 10.10.3, latest Xcode (6.3), using GCC 4.8
> >
> > --------
> >
> > After getting past the defined(__OPENBSD__) bug I'm running into a host of
> > new errors starting with:
> >
> > /Users/karianna/Documents/workspace/AdoptOpenJDK_projects/jdk9/hotspot/agent/src/os/bsd/MacosxDebuggerLocal.m:26:
> > /Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/Platforms/MacOSX.platform/Developer/SDKs/MacOSX10.10.sdk/usr/include/objc/NSObject.h:22:1:
> > error: unknown type name 'instancetype'
> > - (instancetype)self;
> > ^
> 
> You're using an SDK that's intended to be used exclusively with clang. I think you'd have to go back to MacOSX10.8.sdk for compatibility with gcc.
> 
> I'm curious why you're even trying to compile with gcc?
> 
> -DrD-
> 
>