Guide for building OpenJDK Valhalla

[MacGregor, Duncan (GE Energy Management)]

One quick note, bug 8062816 (https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8062816) will prevent building on OS X Yosemite unless you manually do a graft from the main jdk9-dev branch. The fix should be merged next time changed are puled in from jdk9. Just a heads up if you're building on OS X.

Duncan.
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From: valhalla-dev [valhalla-dev-bounces at openjdk.java.net] on behalf of Nils Jonsson [aka.bash0r at gmail.com]
Sent: 17 January 2015 20:34
To: valhalla-dev at openjdk.java.net
Subject: Re: Guide for building OpenJDK Valhalla

Thanks a lot! I'll try to build it the next few days.
Am 17.01.2015 21:32 schrieb "Martijn Verburg" <martijnverburg at gmail.com>:

> 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>
>> 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!
>> >
>>
>
>
> --
> Cheers,
> Martijn
>