Java compiler API not supporting non-standard options such as -XDignore.symbol.file?

[Peter Niederwieser]

Anyone? Do you have a public issue tracker where I can submit this?

Peter

On Oct 7, 2013, at 3:35 AM, Peter Niederwieser <pniederw at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi compiler developers,
> 
> I'm working on the Java compiler integration for the Gradle build tool (http://gradle.org). Our main way of interacting with the Java compiler is the Java compiler API. Among other things, this allows us to have a long-running compiler process that can be reused over time, which is considerably faster than forking a new compiler every time.
> 
> I've noticed that the Java compiler API seems to silently ignore some of the options supported by the (Oracle JDK) command-line compiler. A concrete example is -XDignore.symbol.file=true, which some Gradle users need in order to be able to compile against internal JDK classes (e.g. com.sun.image.codec.jpeg.JPEGCodec). Is this a known issue, or is it even a feature (perhaps because -XDignore.symbol.file is a non-standard option)? To achieve the best possible compiler integration in Gradle, it would help a lot if the compiler API accepted exactly the same options as the corresponding command-line compiler.
> 
> Thanks for any insights.
> 
> Cheers,
> Peter
> 
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> Peter Niederwieser 
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