Build farm for OpenJFX (on ARM)

[Mani Sarkar]

Hi All,

As per Chris's message and the tweet I got last night / this morning I'm
updating you (which I was intending to do when the time was right), that we
now have a successful OpenJFX build on Cloudbees, see
https://adopt-openjdk.ci.cloudbees.com/view/OpenJDK/job/OpenJFX/.

Our build farm is able to build an updated artefact each day. Currently its
a Linux build, the ARM build is on its way, an issue with a dependency has
hindered us, but once that is also successful you will be able to download
both these binaries from the above Cloudbees location.

I'll add to what Chris has mentioned, I was not aware of another initiative
to build OpenJFX binaries and ours is to not duplicate the effort but make
such opensource binaries related to OpenJDK available to everyone in the
community.

We need all the help you can give us. As you can see from the list on the
cloud farm, something or the other always needs to be attended to.

Thanks.

Cheers,
Mani

On Thu, Feb 5, 2015 at 8:35 AM, Chris Newland <cnewland at chrisnewland.com>
wrote:

> Hi Johan, all,
>
> Following the announcement that JDK builds for ARM will no longer include
> JavaFX I started talking with the OpenJDK Adoption group
> (https://wiki.openjdk.java.net/display/Adoption/Main) about the
> possibility of using their CloudBees CI system to produce OpenJFX binaries
> (for all operating systems including ARM) as a way to help keep JavaFX
> alive on IoT devices.
>
> For those who don't know the Adoption group, its mission is to help
> developers get started with building OpenJDK, testing new features,
> submitting bug reports, and cleaning up code.
>
> Adoption has a CloudBees CI set up and I've been talking with Mani Sarkar
> (@theneomatrix369) about setting up an OpenJFX CI project with
> cross-compile support that builds OpenJFX for all archs.
>
> The cross-compile instructions here
>
> https://wiki.openjdk.java.net/display/OpenJFX/Cross+Building+for+ARM+Hard+Float
> are working great for me locally so now we're trying to work out how to
> move that to the cloud.
>
> I don't want to tread on anyone's toes here and we're not trying to become
> any kind of official source for JavaFX, just trying to make sure there's
> an easy way (e.g. binaries) for end users to add JavaFX to their ARM JDKs
> and to help people dip their toes into OpenJFX development as per the
> Adoption group's mission.
>
> Happy to coordinate on how we can make this useful and avoid any
> duplication of effort :)
>
> Personally, I'm a big fan of JavaFX and use it as the UI layer in JITWatch
>  (https://github.com/AdoptOpenJDK/jitwatch/). I'm also into IoT and
> wearables and think JavaFX would be great on the new Raspberry Pi 2.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Chris
> @chriswhocodes
>
>
>


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