Hacking the OpenJDK

[David Herron]

http://openjdk.java.net/guide/ -- it's still a work in progress and if 
you have any questions perhaps you can ask in the guide-discuss list to 
get clarifications.

Yes you can use an IDE to work on OpenJDK changes but your 'IDE' can 
also be "ed" or "vi".  It's up to individual preference.

In the OpenJDK and OpenJDK6 source trees there are some netbeans 
projects that can help you get started.  They are in 'jdk/make/netbeans' 
(if I remember the path right)

The important README's within the source tree are:

    README-builds.html
    jdk/make/README
    jdk/make/netbeans/README

They give information about configuring your environment.

The recent discussion you're seeing about Visual Studio is very recent.  
Most of us are on other platforms.  I regularly compile on Ubuntu w/o 
problem.  No need to be on Windows unless that's your cup of tea, of course.

In Elliotte's article, if he'd read the README's beforehand he woulda 
had an easier time ;-)

- David Herron



Camel Aissani wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I would like to contribute to the openjdk, but I wasn't able to find a 
> document that explains how to make my first hack :(
> At this time, I have a fedora 8 distribution and I had compile the 
> entire icedtea project.
> Many thanks to Sylvain for your french wiki it was very useful ;-)
>
> Now I don't know if I can use an IDE to hack (Netbeans, eclipse...). 
> Sorry for the purist...I am a javaboy and I like my IDE.
> In many emails about icedtea, I read a lot of stuff arround Visual 
> Studio...I hope that I will be able to hack without windows.
>
> Two days ago, I tried to compile the openjdk in debug mode. I failed...
> I read this article 
> http://today.java.net/pub/a/today/2007/11/29/building-the-jdk.html 
> where there is a lot information.
> Could you give me other links where I can find a simpliest way to 
> compile the jdk on fedora?
>
> Cheers
> Camel
>
>
> 2008/3/20, Mark Wielaard <mark at klomp.org <mailto:mark at klomp.org>>:
>
>     Hi Sylvain,
>
>
>     On Wed, 2008-03-19 at 22:33 +0100, Sylvain Beucler wrote:
>     > (My apologizes if that's not the right list to ask, I didn't find
>     > other contact adresses)
>
>
>     You are right. There is no other contact address. This list is it!
>
>
>     > I would like to contribute IcedTea build instructions for Debian on
>     > the wiki. I have a French version here:
>     > http://doc.cliss21.com/index.php?title=IcedTea
>
>
>     Nice and thanks!
>
>
>     > Apparently account creation is blocked.
>     > What is the procedure to register one?
>
>
>     Sorry about the account creation being blocked.
>     Unfortunately spammers learned how to create accounts and... sniff :{
>     So for now you just have to ask on this list and an account for your
>     email address will be created. I just did this for you.
>
>     Cheers,
>
>
>     Mark
>
>
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