Building OpenJDK 8 on 10.6.8

Joe McGlynn joe.mcglynn at oracle.com
Tue Jan 7 06:11:11 PST 2014


Hi Robert,

JDK 7 is only supported on 10.7.3 and above because there are API limitations in versions of OS X below that.  Building the complete JDK (7 or 8) on lower versions of the JDK is not possible AFAIK.


On Jan 7, 2014, at 6:00 AM, Robert Krüger <krueger at lesspain.de> wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I think the official answer to this is 10.7+ is supported but is there
> a possibility to build OpenJDK 8 on 10.6.8 maybe with some
> limitations? Could anyone share information on this?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Robert



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