Building Java9 on Mac OSX

[Lennart Börjeson]

I can build on MacOS Sierra (10.12.5), XCode 8.3.2.

I have to disable ”warnings as errors”, though.  (bash configure --disable-warnings-as-errors)

/Lennart

> 18 maj 2017 kl. 14:27 skrev Erik Joelsson <erik.joelsson at oracle.com>:
> 
> Hello,
> 
> I think you should still be able to install some 7.X version of Xcode and IIRC that should work better. I have not yet heard of a successful build on Xcode 8.
> 
> /Erik
> 
> 
> On 2017-05-18 14:21, Dakshinamoorthi, Soundararajan wrote:
>> Hi,
>> 
>> I am trying to build java9 in mac OS X Sierra (10.12). As per the building.md, we need Xcode 6.3 to be installed to build JDK. But this version of the OS doesn’t seem to support it. So i installed the latest Xcode (8.3).  The error i get when running make is
>> 
>> “Unable to find <JavaNativeFoundation/JavaNativeFoundation.h>
>> 
>> I tried tweaking the -iframework and -F options to the one that is realistically available in the machine . i.e /APplications/Xcode.app/….., but still no good.
>> 
>> Any help is much appreciated.
>> 
>> BR,
>> Soundararajan
>