Request for Review: Add Mac OS X Instructions to README-builds.html (original) (raw)

Edvard Wendelin edvard.wendelin at oracle.com
Thu Apr 26 02:22:34 PDT 2012

It seems like X11 is included with Lion: http://www.apple.com/macosx/apps/all.html#x11 I haven't installed it separately either and the JDK builds fine.

Cheers, Edvard

On Apr 26, 2012, at 5:13 AM, Ray Kiddy wrote:

On Apr 25, 2012, at 9:25 AM, Dalibor Topic wrote:

On 4/25/12 3:02 PM, Edvard Wendelin wrote: Hi,

I'm working on some updates in the README-builds.html [1]. The first step is to add the Mac OS X platform. I have gathered the requirements from the Mac OS X port wiki [2][3]. It seems like Apple has dropped the "Mac" part of "Mac OS X" and now only call the product "OS X Lion" [4]. Question is if this is only a marketing term or if it's now the official name. In this webrev I've used "Mac OS X".

I'd suggest adding a line a la "After installing XCode, you must install the XCode command line tools. They are available for download through XCode itself." cheers, dalibor topic I would also suggest pointing out that X11 is required to build. I do not think it is part of the base install of the Dev Tools, it is not separately downloadable (so I need to try to find those @#$%@&! DVDs) and it is not a command-line tool. Or is it part of what you get with that install option? I am still on SnowLeopard, so I do not know. And I cannot build the JDK for lack of freetype, which seems to come with X11. cheers - ray ps: That's quite a signature there, Dalibor. Do you drive a really big car, also? :-)

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