Building OpenJFX 9 with OpenJDK 9+181

[Kevin Rushforth]

This sounds like a bootstrap problem. I suspect that we are missing the 
needed --add-exports in build.gradle to build using a JDK that does not 
already have javafx.* modules.

I filed the following bug to track this:

https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8189111

As a workaround, you can use the Oracle JDK 9 build as the boot JDK.

-- Kevin


Emmanuel Bourg wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I've some trouble building OpenJFX 9 with OpenJDK 9+181 and Gradle 3.2.1
> on Debian. I get the following compilation errors:
>
>
> /home/ebourg/openjfx9/modules/javafx.base/src/main/java/com/sun/javafx/binding/SelectBinding.java:47:
> error: package sun.util.logging is not visible
>   import sun.util.logging.PlatformLogger.Level;
>                  ^
>     (package sun.util.logging is declared in module java.base, which
> does not export it to module javafx.base)
>
> /home/ebourg/openjfx9/modules/javafx.base/src/main/java/com/sun/javafx/property/PropertyReference.java:36:
> error: package sun.reflect.misc is not visible
>   import sun.reflect.misc.ReflectUtil;
>                     ^
>     (package sun.reflect.misc is declared in module java.base, which
> does not export it to module javafx.base)
>
>
> I tried exporting the _JAVA_OPTIONS variable defined in
> README-java-options and adding --add-opens parameters to build.gradle
> but it didn't work.
>
> What am I missing?
>
> Emmanuel Bourg
>