Building Graal with JVMCI JDK8 on Aarch64

[Dmitry Samersoff]

I can confirm that recent openjdk (11) works fine with Graal on AARH64,
never tried jdk8 though.

-Dmitry

On 12.02.2018 18:20, Foivos Zakkak wrote:
> Hello all,
> 
> We are trying to build Graal on top of JVMCI JDK8 on Aarch64, but we
> fail to get JVMCI JDK8 to build.
> 
> We use:
> 1. the latest mx (11c0b3dab35110bcef853e30ca9ee18615451fe0) from github.
> 2. Oracle's jdk8u151 for aarch64 jdk-8u151-linux-arm64-vfp-hflt.tar.gz
> 3. gcc (Ubuntu/Linaro 5.4.0-6ubuntu1~16.04.6) 5.4.0 20160609
> 
> When running:
> hg clone http://hg.openjdk.java.net/graal/graal-jvmci-8
> cd graal-jvmci-8
> mx --java-home /path/to/jdk8 build
> 
> We get:
> 
> WARNING: No platform-specific definition is available for distribution JVM_PRODUCT_SERVER for your architecture (aarch64)
> 
> and later the error:
> 
> Generating precompiled header precompiled.hpp.gch
> g++: error: unrecognized command line option '-m64'
> 
> Does JVMCI JDK8 support Aarch64? Are we doing something wrong?
> 
> Kind regards
> --
> Foivos Zakkak                            Research Associate
> School of Computer Science     The University of Manchester
> 


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