<AWT Dev> <Swing Dev> EA8 build of Project Lanai (Java 2D Metal rendering pipeline for macOS) is now posted

[Alan Snyder]

> On Dec 16, 2020, at 11:57 PM, Philip Race <philip.race at oracle.com> wrote:
> 
> To anyone who has a mac still running 10.12 - we don't expect Metal to run (it requires at least 10.13
> and maybe even later by the time it is final) but we would like confirmation that nothing in Metal
> prevents OpenGL running on older releases.
> Note there is currently a hotspot build bug unrelated to Lanai that prevents running on 10.10
> and maybe 10.11 but 10.12 will be a useful data point.

I tried running it on macOS 10.12 under Parallels Desktop.

If I don’t ask for metal, it seems to work.

If I ask for metal, it fails awkwardly:

Failed to load library. error (null)

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