Guide for building OpenJDK Valhalla

[Ivan St. Ivanov]

Hi Nils,

Have you built openjdk so far? If not, there are the build instructions:

https://java.net/projects/adoptopenjdk/pages/WhatToWorkOnForOpenJDK#Build_OpenJDK

You may notice that there are instructions for building OpenJDK on your own
machine or on VM. I would recommend to use Linux. I've done it once on
Windows, but it was really hard. So, if you are not running Linux on your
computer, then choose virtual machine.

Now, you can follow the same instructions for building Valhalla. The only
difference is the repository where you get the sources. So, at the
GetSource step (https://java.net/projects/adoptopenjdk/pages/GetSource)
instead of doing:

hg clone http://hg.openjdk.java.net/jdk9/dev jdk9

...for Valhalla you should do something along these lines:

hg clone http://hg.openjdk.java.net/valhalla/valhalla valhalla

The rest should be the same.

I hope this helps!
Ivan


On Sat, Jan 17, 2015 at 9:06 PM, Nils Jonsson <aka.bash0r at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hey everyone,
>
> I wanted to start helping testing the Valhalla project after reading on the
> mailing list recently. Is there any guide or something on the web where I
> can get started building the project?
>
> Thanks in advance!
>