Gradle project for automatic OpenJDK/OpenJFX builds

I’m currently working on a Gradle project that downloads OpenJDK & OpenJFX sources and builds both afterwards with little to no configuration necessary. Currently it works for OS X. Other operating systems coming soon!

Feel free to contribute!

Requirements

• Mac OS = 10.8.x (unknown whether it will work for 10.9)
• XCode == 4.6.x
• X11/XQuartz (provides freetype for JDK)
• Mercurial (version?)
• JDK >= 1.7.0_25 and < 1.8.x

Download The Project

The project can be found on GitHub: https://github.com/miho/OpenJDK-Builder

I Cant Wait!

If you want to try right away here’s what you have to do:

#> cd PathToOpenJDK-Builder/jdk8
#> ./gradlew assemble

If something goes wrong please keep on reading.

Usage

First we explore the file structure:

#> cd PathToOpenJDK-Builder/jdk8
#> ls
binary_stub     gradle    gradlew.bat    jfx8-src
build.gradle    gradlew   jdk8-src

The build.gradle file contains several important variables:

• BOOTSTRAP_JDK: location of the boostrap JDK. Defaults is JDK 7.0_45
• DEVKIT: Xcode location (must be Xcode 4.6.x).
• MAC_OSX_SDK: OS X SDK for building OpenJFX. Default is 10.7
• BRANCH: OpenJFX mercurial branch. Default is graphics

Before proceeding please copy a jfxrt.jar from JavaFX 8 preview release to the binary_stub folder.

Now it is time for building OpenJDK and OpenJFX:

#> ./gradlew assemble

That’s it!

Other operating systems coming soon!

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To be continued…