Announcing: OpenJDK for Mac OS X source repository, mailing list, project home

[Gary Meyer]

In this case, Universal means i386 and x86_64.  PPC is not currently supported, but can be.  See my previous e-mail with Henri Gomez
Gary.

On Jan 11, 2011, at 5:06 PM, Nikolas Nikou wrote:

> I downloaded the image but it doesn't work under MacOSX 10.5.8 with PowerPC.
> I know that it says X86 but I thought that we will get universal binaries.
> 
> I hope that this new development will finally lead to a PowerPC version.
> 
> thank you for the hope Mike
> 
> 
> On 11 Ιαν 2011, at 9:53 ΜΜ, Henri Gomez wrote:
> 
>>> Java Developers,
>>> 
>>> I'm very happy to let you know that today we made the first public
>>> contribution of code to the OpenJDK project for Mac OS X. This initial
>>> contribution builds on the hard work of the BSD port, and initially has the
>>> same functionality. Today's contribution simply modifies the build process
>>> to create universal binary, and produces a .jdk bundle which is recognized
>>> by Java Preferences and the JVM detection logic in Mac OS X.
>>> 
>>> For more information about the Mac OS X Port project, please check out these
>>> resources:
>>> Project home: <http://openjdk.java.net/projects/macosx-port>
>>> Project wiki & getting started instructions:
>>> <http://wikis.sun.com/display/OpenJDK/Mac+OS+X+Port>
>>> Project status:
>>> <http://wikis.sun.com/display/OpenJDK/Mac+OS+X+Port+Project+Status>
>>> Mailing list:
>>> <http://mail.openjdk.java.net/mailman/listinfo/macosx-port-dev>
>>> Source repository: <http://hg.openjdk.java.net/macosx-port/macosx-port>
>>> 
>>> For those of you who would like to join us hacking on the next generation of
>>> Java for Mac OS X, please join our mailing list, download the source, and
>>> spin a build for yourself.
>>> 
>>> It has been a long road getting to this point collaborating behind the
>>> scenes with Sun and now Oracle, but as of today we are on the road to fully
>>> open development of the Mac OS X port. We look forward to providing more
>>> code from our collaboration soon, and working with you all.
>> 
>> First build available from openjdk-osx-build project :
>> 
>> http://openjdk-osx-build.googlecode.com/files/OpenJDK-OSX-1.7-x86_64-2011011.dmg
>> 
>> Notes :
>> 
>> - VM Vendor is UNDEFINED (Info.plist need to be updated)
>> 
>> - VM is a dual mode, 32/64 bits (-d32 / -d64)
>> 
>> - Installation on /Library/Java/JavaVirtualMachines/1.7.0.jdk
>> 
>> /Library/Java/JavaVirtualMachines/1.7.0.jdk/Contents/Home/bin/java -version
>> openjdk version "1.7.0-internal"
>> OpenJDK Runtime Environment (build 1.7.0-internal-b00)
>> OpenJDK 64-Bit Server VM (build 20.0-b03, mixed mode)
>> 
>> Enjoy and thanks to Cupertino's guys to open a new road to Java on OS/X !
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