| Building the "langtools" workspace. | |
| The "langtools" workspace can be built from the command line with Ant. | |
| The build file is make/build.xml, in conjunction with make/build.properties. | |
| Some additional user-specific properties files are also read, to allow | |
| you to customize selected properties as needed. | |
| Individual tools within the workspace can also be built and worked on | |
| with NetBeans, using the projects in the make/netbeans directory. | |
| The "langtools" workspace can also be built from the command line with | |
| GNU Make, although the Makefile is simply a wrapper around the Ant | |
| build file. This is provided for systems (such as the full OpenJDK build) | |
| that expect to be able to build this workspace with GNU Make. | |
| System Requirements: | |
| Ant: version 1.6.5 or later | |
| NetBeans: version 6.0 or later (optional) | |
| JDK: currently version 1.5.0, although 1.6.0 is recommended | |
| OS: any system supporting the above tools | |
| For more information: | |
| Ant: http://ant.apache.org/ | |
| GNU Make: http://www.gnu.org/software/make/ | |
| NetBeans: http://www.netbeans.org/ | |
| Testing the "langtools" workspace. | |
| The primary set of tests for the compiler is the compiler TCK. This | |
| tests that the compiler performs according to the specifications in | |
| JLS and JVMS. | |
| In addition, there is a substantial collection of regression and unit | |
| tests for all the tools in the main langtools test/ directory. | |
| Finally, there is a small set of tests to do basic validation of a build | |
| of the langtools workspace for use by JDK. These tests check the contents | |
| of the dist/ directory generated by the build, and verify that the various | |
| tools can do basic "Hello World"-style processing. These tests should be | |
| run by jtreg, with the -jdk option set a version of JDK capable of running | |
| the default output of the javac compiler in this workspace. Currently, | |
| this means JDK 6 or better. |