Building Mac OS X

[Douglas Simon]

Hi Sam,

I see that is a developer preview release (http://jdk7.java.net/download.html) which I don't think any of us have tried yet. I can certify that the 7u5 official release for MacOS (http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javase/downloads/index.html) still works. We'll look into what changed in 7u6 and hopefully have a fix pushed before too long. There might be a bit of a delay given that most of us are occupied with the JVM Language Summit this week.

-Doug

On Jul 29, 2012, at 4:27 PM, Sam Pullara wrote:

> I'm using the latest JDK7u6 released from Oracle:
> 
> macpro:graal sam$ java -version
> java version "1.7.0_06-ea"
> Java(TM) SE Runtime Environment (build 1.7.0_06-ea-b21)
> Java HotSpot(TM) 64-Bit Server VM (build 23.2-b09, mixed mode)
> 
> Then I executed:
> 
> echo "JAVA_HOME=/Library/Java/JavaVirtualMachines/jdk1.7.0_06.jdk/Contents/Home" >mx/env
> ./mx.sh build
> 
> Those both completed successfully.  Finally when I run the vm command, I get this:
> 
> macpro:graal sam$ ./mx.sh vm
> Error occurred during initialization of VM
> java.lang.NullPointerException
> 	at java.util.Hashtable.put(Hashtable.java:542)
> 	at java.lang.System.initProperties(Native Method)
> 	at java.lang.System.initializeSystemClass(System.java:1115)
> 
> Looks like a null value is being provided at initialization. Any ideas on how to get this part to work?
> 
> Thanks,
> Sam
>