• JDK 1.7.0 on Snow Leopard

    I wanted to try out the DirectoryStream class in nio.2, but unfortunately it’s in Java’s 1.7.0 JDK and Apple hasn’t seen fit to get that out yet.

    The obvious solution is to use OpenJDK, and there are some great articles out there (here and here) about installing it on OS X versions earlier than Snow Leopard.

    I was able to get most of the way through the build process described, and hit a roadblock.

    Compiling /Users/mporges/bsd-port/hotspot/src/share/vm/runtime/arguments.cpp
rm -f arguments.o
g++ -D_ALLBSD_SOURCE -D_GNU_SOURCE -DIA32 -DPRODUCT -I. -I../generated/adfiles -I../generated/jvmtifiles -I/Users/mporges/bsd-port/hotspot/src/share/vm/asm -I/Users/mporges/bsd-port/hotspot/src/share/vm/c1 -I/Users/mporges/bsd-port/hotspot/src/share/vm/ci -I/Users/mporges/bsd-port/hotspot/src/share/vm/classfile -I/Users/mporges/bsd-port/hotspot/src/share/vm/code -I/Users/mporges/bsd-port/hotspot/src/share/vm/compiler -I/Users/mporges/bsd-port/hotspot/src/share/vm/gc_implementation -I/Users/mporges/bsd-port/hotspot/src/share/vm/gc_implementation/concurrentMarkSweep -I/Users/mporges/bsd-port/hotspot/src/share/vm/gc_implementation/g1 -I/Users/mporges/bsd-port/hotspot/src/share/vm/gc_implementation/parallelScavenge -I/Users/mporges/bsd-port/hotspot/src/share/vm/gc_implementation/parNew -I/Users/mporges/bsd-port/hotspot/src/share/vm/gc_implementation/shared -I/Users/mporges/bsd-port/hotspot/src/share/vm/gc_interface -I/Users/mporges/bsd-port/hotspot/src/share/vm/interpreter -I/Users/mporges/bsd-port/hotspot/src/share/vm/libadt -I/Users/mporges/bsd-port/hotspot/src/share/vm/memory -I/Users/mporges/bsd-port/hotspot/src/share/vm/oops -I/Users/mporges/bsd-port/hotspot/src/share/vm/opto -I/Users/mporges/bsd-port/hotspot/src/share/vm/prims -I/Users/mporges/bsd-port/hotspot/src/share/vm/runtime -I/Users/mporges/bsd-port/hotspot/src/share/vm/services -I/Users/mporges/bsd-port/hotspot/src/share/vm/utilities -I/Users/mporges/bsd-port/hotspot/src/cpu/x86/vm -I/Users/mporges/bsd-port/hotspot/src/os/bsd/vm -I/Users/mporges/bsd-port/hotspot/src/os_cpu/bsd_x86/vm -I../generated -DHOTSPOT_RELEASE_VERSION="\"16.0-b08\"" -DHOTSPOT_BUILD_TARGET="\"product\"" -DHOTSPOT_BUILD_USER="\"mporges\"" -DHOTSPOT_LIB_ARCH=\"i386\" -DJRE_RELEASE_VERSION="\"1.7.0-internal-mporges_2009_09_23_22_44-b00\"" -DHOTSPOT_VM_DISTRO="\"OpenJDK\"" -DCOMPILER2 -DCOMPILER1 -fPIC -fno-rtti -fno-exceptions -pthread -fcheck-new -m32 -march=i586 -mstackrealign -pipe -O3 -fno-strict-aliasing -DVM_LITTLE_ENDIAN -Werror -Wpointer-arith -Wconversion -Wsign-compare    -D_XOPEN_SOURCE -D_DARWIN_C_SOURCE -c -o arguments.o /Users/mporges/bsd-port/hotspot/src/share/vm/runtime/arguments.cpp 
cc1plus: warnings being treated as errors
/Users/mporges/bsd-port/hotspot/src/share/vm/runtime/arguments.cpp: In static member function 'static void Arguments::set_aggressive_opts_flags()':
/Users/mporges/bsd-port/hotspot/src/share/vm/runtime/arguments.cpp:1398: warning: format '%d' expects type 'int', but argument 3 has type 'intx'
make[6]: *** [arguments.o] Error 1
make[5]: *** [the_vm] Error 2
make[4]: *** [product] Error 2
make[3]: *** [generic_build2] Error 2
make[2]: *** [product] Error 2
make[1]: *** [hotspot-build] Error 2
make: *** [build_product_image] Error 2

    A little Googling led to this thread on the OpenJDK mailing lists. Apparently there are some issues installing 1.7.0 on Snow Leopard, although one of the guys got it working by using gcc-4.0 and g++-4.0 rather than the 4.2.x versions installed on Snow Leopard.

    I don’t really feel like installing older gcc and g++ versions on to my Mac and modifying the build to use them, so I’m hoping they can get this addressed soon so that OpenJDK will build on the mostly-vanilla Snow Leopard distribution.

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