Guide for building OpenJDK Valhalla

[Martijn Verburg]

I should be adding the instructions soon on the Valhalla home page -
apologies for the delays!

On Saturday, 17 January 2015, Ivan St. Ivanov <ivan.st.ivanov at gmail.com>
wrote:

> 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
> <javascript:;>> 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!
> >
>


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Cheers,
Martijn