Build shark against llvm 3.0 on mac os x

[Edward Wang]

Henri,

I'm glad you are interested in the same topic. I made a gist for you,
with necessary script and instruments in it:
    https://gist.github.com/1696874

Hope it helps.

Regards,
Edward

On Sat, Jan 28, 2012 at 6:00 PM, Henri Gomez <henri.gomez at gmail.com> wrote:
> 2011/12/5 Edward Wang <edward.yu.wang at gmail.com>:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I tried to build shark against 3.0 on mac os x. I started with
>> repository http://hg.openjdk.java.net/jdk7u/jdk7u-osx/, applied shark
>> llvm 3.0 patch mentioned here: http://labb.zafena.se/?p=459 and did
>> bunch of other adjustments. I made some progress before hit the wall.
>> It began to complain something like "RicochetFrame is not a member of
>> MethodHandles". Not like other cpus' methodHandles implementation,
>> hotspot/src/cpu/zero/vm/methodHandles_zero.hpp is just a placeholder,
>> which says:
>>    #define TARGET_ARCH_NYI_6939861 1
>>
>> So, my question is does anyone try to build shark on os x before? Any
>> suggestions?
>>
>> And in ZeroSharkFaq wiki, there's a line says "Zero is currently
>> Linux- and GCC-specific". I begin to doubt whether my effort of
>> building shark on os x will be any good to openjdk community :)
>
> You should continue, OSX users with PPC have no other choice :(
> Did you automate/script build process so I could take a look ?