Building Java9 on Mac OSX

[Lennart Börjeson]

Well, sort of. The versions of MacOS, XCode, and Command Line Tools should match, in the sense that any certain version of MacOS requires a compatible version of XCode, which in its turn requires a compatible version of the Command Line Tools.

It is thus not possible to keep an older XCode when you upgrade MacOS.

In practise, I just enable automatic software updates and always run the latest versions. It's the way of Apple, even it sometimes breaks the build of other software. :-/

(If you have automatic updates enabled, your problems should have automatically gone away at the next update…)


Keep on coding,

/Lennart

> 18 maj 2017 kl. 16:04 skrev Dakshinamoorthi, Soundararajan <DakshinS at advisory.com>:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> Thanks, this worked. The order of installation of Xcode IDE and the Command line tools , seem to make a difference. 
> 
> BR,
> Soundararajan
> 
>> On 18-May-2017, at 18:03, Lennart Börjeson <lenborje at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 
>> Have you installed the Command Line Tools for XCode? That package is essential.
>> 
>> If you haven’t installed it, you can get it by the command:
>> 
>> sudo xcode-select --install
>> 
>> 
>>> 18 maj 2017 kl. 14:21 skrev Dakshinamoorthi, Soundararajan <DakshinS at advisory.com>:
>>> 
>>> 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
>> 
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