jextract standalone repository

[Rémy Maucherat]

On Wed, Mar 23, 2022 at 10:51 PM 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.

This is excellent.

Ideally, there should also be a branch in the repository targeting
Java 17 (since it's LTS) and another one for preview changes (there is
no jextract for foreign-preview).

Rémy

> Cheers
> Maurizio
>
> [1] -
> https://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/panama-dev/2021-December/015895.html
> [2] - https://releases.llvm.org/download.html
>
>