<Swing Dev> EA8 build of Project Lanai (Java 2D Metal rendering pipeline for macOS) is now posted

[Ajit Ghaisas]

Hi Alan,

    Can you please check with the latest Lanai EA (EA-9 - https://jdk.java.net/lanai/) on macOS 10.12?
    It includes the JDK-8258754 <https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8258754> fix.

    Please use -Dsun.java2d.metal=True (note the capital ’T’) to get the confirmation message printed on the terminal.

Regards,
Ajit

> On 18-Dec-2020, at 9:27 PM, Alan Snyder <javalists at cbfiddle.com> wrote:
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>> On Dec 16, 2020, at 11:57 PM, Philip Race <philip.race at oracle.com> wrote:
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>> To anyone who has a mac still running 10.12 - we don't expect Metal to run (it requires at least 10.13
>> and maybe even later by the time it is final) but we would like confirmation that nothing in Metal
>> prevents OpenGL running on older releases.
>> Note there is currently a hotspot build bug unrelated to Lanai that prevents running on 10.10
>> and maybe 10.11 but 10.12 will be a useful data point.
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> I tried running it on macOS 10.12 under Parallels Desktop.
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> If I don’t ask for metal, it seems to work.
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> If I ask for metal, it fails awkwardly:
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> Failed to load library. error (null)
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