Mac OS X 32bit x86 build fails for jdk12u

[Erik Joelsson]

Hello Andre,

As far as I'm aware, support for 32 bit on Macosx has not been supported 
by anyone for a very long time. I would assume it far from trivial to 
get it to work.

/Erik

On 2020-05-14 17:17, Andre Kovacs wrote:
> Dear members,
>
> For compatibility reasons with older 32bit i386 architecture dylibs via
> JNI, I'm trying to build a 32bit version of jdk12u on Mac OS X.
>
> I'm using the following configure command:
> "bash configure
> --with-boot-jdk=/Library/Java/JavaVirtualMachines/openjdk12/Contents/Home
> --with-target-bits=32"
>
> But I'm getting the following build errors when I try to build
> macosx-x86-client-release and macosx-x86-server-release:
> "ERROR: Build failed for target 'default (exploded-image)' in configuration
> 'macosx-x86-client-release' (exit code 2)
>
> === Output from failing command(s) repeated here ===
> * For target hotspot_variant-client_libjvm_objs_abstractInterpreter.o:
> In file included from
> /Users/andre/Documents/OpenJDK/jdk12u-390566f1850a/src/hotspot/share/interpreter/abstractInterpreter.cpp:33:
> In file included from
> /Users/andre/Documents/OpenJDK/jdk12u-390566f1850a/src/hotspot/share/interpreter/interp_masm.hpp:31:
> /Users/andre/Documents/OpenJDK/jdk12u-390566f1850a/src/hotspot/cpu/x86/interp_masm_x86.hpp:171:5:
> error: call to member function 'movptr' is ambiguous
>      movptr(Address(rbp, frame::interpreter_frame_last_sp_offset *
> wordSize), (int32_t)NULL_WORD);
>      ^~~~~~
> /Users/andre/Documents/OpenJDK/jdk12u-390566f1850a/src/hotspot/cpu/x86/macroAssembler_x86.hpp:1554:8:
> note: candidate function
>    void movptr(Address dst, intptr_t src);
>         ^
> /Users/andre/Documents/OpenJDK/jdk12u-390566f1850a/src/hotspot/cpu/x86/macroAssembler_x86.hpp:1556:8:
> note: candidate function
>    void movptr(Address dst, Register src);
>         ^
> /Users/andre/Documents/OpenJDK/jdk12u-390566f1850a/src/hotspot/cpu/x86/macroAssembler_x86.hpp:1540:8:
> note: candidate function not viable: no known conversion from 'Address' to
> 'ArrayAddress' for 1st argument
>     ... (rest of output omitted)
>
> * All command lines available in
> /Users/andre/Documents/OpenJDK/jdk12u-390566f1850a/build/macosx-x86-client-release/make-support/failure-logs.
> === End of repeated output ==="
>
> Thank you in advance for your time.
>
> Regards,
> Andre