jextract standalone repository

[Duncan Gittins]

I've download OpenJDK18 for Windows then built jextract from the new 
repos location. The new jextract does not appear to handle 
"@commandfile" style command line arguments so I can no longer supply 
two config files - one for the build flags and another for the 
"--include" flags necessary to cut Windows jars back to a manageable size.

     > build\jextract\jextract.exe @headers\Ole32.conf @headers\Ole32.dat
  or
     > build\jextract\jextract.exe @headers\Ole32.conf
     =>
     OPTION ERROR: Expected 1 header file, not 2

Whereas if I type in the contents of headers\Ole32.conf explicitly it 
works but is unusable as I get 7000 classes:

     > build\jextract\jextract.exe -source -lole32 -t duncan.win.ole -d 
source\duncan.win\java headers\Ole32.h

Kind regards

Duncan

On 23/03/2022 21:50, Maurizio Cimadamore 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
>
>