jextract standalone repository

[Maurizio Cimadamore]

On 24/03/2022 12:14, Sebastian Stenzel wrote:
> 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 
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> 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.

Thanks - this is _exactly_ the kind of things that I hoped would become 
simpler to do by moving jextract out of the JDK repo. I'm glad to see 
that this seems to be the case.

Maurizio

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>> 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 
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>> 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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