jdk8 and MacOSX Mavericks XCode gcc

[Jim Laskey (Oracle)]

I managed to build OpenJDK on Mavericks using the Xcode4 tool chain, with one minor glitch (Bob, installing Quartz X11 addresses X11 issues.)

Before installing Mavericks, I renamed Xcode.app to Xcode4.app.

I then installed Mavericks and sundry updates (Xcode5, iTunes, iWorks, iLife, ...)

After checking out tl, I configured with

	sh ./configure --with-tools-dir=/Applications/Xcode4.app/Contents/Developer/usr/bin

Everything built except for one Apple header.

/System/Library/Frameworks/Foundation.framework/Versions/C/Headers/NSUserNotification.h:16

  NSUserNotificationActivationTypeReplied NS_AVAILABLE(10_9, NA) = 3

I changed to 

  NSUserNotificationActivationTypeReplied /* NS_AVAILABLE(10_9, NA) */ = 3

Otherwise we get a __attribute__ instead of ',' or '}' error.

Everything ran fine after that.

Cheers,

-- Jim






On Oct 24, 2013, at 1:58 PM, Bob Vandette <bob.vandette at oracle.com> wrote:

> I'm not trying to do a complete OSX build but here's my experience trying to build the JDK8
> sources with Xcode 5 which has removed the gcc compilers in favor of llvm.  They
> do have some gcc compatibility commands which help but you need to install Command Line
> Tools.
> 
> 1. Installed the Command Line Tools optional package.
> 
> 2. Had to disable GCC compiler check in toolchain.m4 and run autogen.sh
> Was complaining since gcc --version doesn't provide expected output.
> 
> 3. Compiler options ignored messages.  We'll need to remove these options.
> -fcheck-new
> -fpch-deps
> 
> 4. Lots of warnings of unused enum in switch.  May need to add -Wswitch as a temp work-around until
>    we figure out if these need to be fixed.  
> 
>   Lots of warnings of un-used parameter.  May need to add -Wunused-parameter as a temp work-around
>   until we figure out if these need to be fixed.  
> 
> 5. No X11 header files causes compilation problems with AWT files.
> 
> /jdk/src/solaris/native/sun/awt/utility/rect.h: fatal error: 'X11/Xlib.h' file not found
> jdk/src/solaris/native/sun/awt/awt.h:38:10: fatal error: 'X11/Intrinsic.h' file not found
> 
> Ended up putting X11 header files path in MY_CFLAG via -I option in my build script temporarily.
> You could probably install the header files in /usr/include/X11 or in the toolchain header path
> until we eliminate X11 dependencies for MacOSX builds.  I'm building without any GUI but
> the build still needs the header files to compile a few files.
> 
> Bob Vandette
> 
> 
> On Oct 24, 2013, at 12:39 PM, Georges Saab <georges.saab at oracle.com> wrote:
> 
>> There is a currently a discussion of this going on at build-dev at openjdk.java.net
>> 
>> (short answer -- yes, there are issues)
>> 
>> 
>> On Oct 24, 2013, at 9:29 AM, René Jansen <rvjansen at xs4all.nl> wrote:
>> 
>>> It appears that the recent update keeps me from doing builds from source on above combination. Did anyone confirm/solve this?
>>> 
>>> best regards,
>>> 
>>> René Jansen.
>> 
>