jextract standalone repository

[Sebastian Stenzel]

Awesome, building the whole JDK for all platforms just to get a recent version of jextract was a bit of a hassle. ��

Btw: I drafted a little Maven wrapper for jextract this morning: https://github.com/coffeelibs/jextract-maven-plugin <https://github.com/coffeelibs/jextract-maven-plugin> This might simplify things further (at least for our projects it is simpler than assembling all the command line args in maven-exec-plugin). I thought I'd mention it in this context.

> On 23. Mar 2022, at 22:50, Maurizio Cimadamore <maurizio.cimadamore at oracle.com> wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> as anticipated in [1], jextract has finally landed in its own standalone repository:
> 
> https://github.com/openjdk/jextract
> 
> The version of jextract included in this repo is suitable to work with Java 18 (just hot off the press!), and we plan to create new branches as new Java versions will come out (to make it easy to find the version you want to work with).
> 
> The jextract sources can be built using gradle; as usual, the build depends on libclang, so a LLVM binary snapshot is required [2]. Testing is also possible (requires jtreg).
> 
> Jextract binary snapshots will be made available at a later date. Moving forward, we will gradually phase out the jextract branch (foreign-jextract) of the panama/foreign repository, and work on the standalone repository instead.
> 
> If you are interested, please give it a try, and let us know what you think.
> 
> Cheers
> Maurizio
> 
> [1] - https://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/panama-dev/2021-December/015895.html
> [2] - https://releases.llvm.org/download.html
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