Build Infrastructure Group

The Build InfrastructureGroupis comprised of developers involved in the design, implementation,and maintanence of the JDK build system.

Introduction

The JDK basically uses a traditionalconfigure &&make style of building, but the underlying design of theconfigure script and makefiles is untraditionally sophisticated,due to the special demands of the project.

If you are a developer or end user wanting to build and/or testthe JDK, please see the following resources for instructions:

• Buildingthe JDK
• Testingthe JDK

Before building, make sure you check out the correct code base.The most recent development version from theJDK Project is available to clone fromhttps://github.com/openjdk/jdk. For older versions,the general rule is to use the update releases, and not the GArelease, e.g.https://github.com/openjdk/jdk11u-dev.See theJDK Updates Project fordetails.

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Documentation

• Instructions forbuildingthe current JDK .
• Instructions fortestingthe current JDK.

• Build documentation for older releases is archived in thecorresponding repositories. Seedoc/building.md (orREADME-builds.html prior to JDK 9) in therepository.

• The Build Group has a (at the moment very outdated)Wiki page, andanother mostly outdated list ofsupportedbuild platforms.

• Code Conventions for theBuild System

Community

• Mailing lists
  • build-dev
• Members
  The official list of Build Group Members can be found on theOpenJDK census.

Sponsored Projects

• Build InfrastructureProject