Building on the Mac OSX / Intel platform

(These instructions were contributed by "jarrah".)

I've successfully built jnode on MacOS X from the trunk and the 2.6 sources. Here's what I needed to do:

  1. I'm using 10.5.2. I'm not sure if it works on 10.4.x.
  2. Download and install Java SE 6 from the ADC site. I used Developer Preview 9. Note that this only works on 64 bit compatible machines (MacBook Pro's with Core 2 Duo processors are OK). The link to the downloads page is: https://connect.apple.com/cgi-bin/WebObjects/MemberSite.woa/105/wo/aC2LI...
  3. If you don't want to use Java SE 6 as your default Java (I don't), then edit build.sh and add /System/Library/Frameworks/JavaVM.framework/Versions/1.6/Commands/ before the java command.
  4. Download and build cdrtools (I used version 2.01.01) from http://cdrecord.berlios.de/private/cdrecord.html. I just installed the mkisofs executable in /usr/local/bin (which is in my path).
  5. Download and install yasm from http://www.tortall.net/projects/yasm/wiki/Download. I used version 0.6.2.
  6. Edit all/lib/jnode.xml and change the javac "memoryMaximumSize" attribute to "1024m".
  7. Edit core/src/openjdk/sun/sun/applet/AppletViewerPanel.java and comment out line 34 "import sun.tools.jar.*;"
  8. Run "sh build.sh cd-x86-lite".

You should end up with an ISO image called jnode-x86.iso in all/build/cdroms.

Cheers,

Greg

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ant, NASM and mkisofs tools

Submitted by wkeenan on Mon, 01/26/2009 - 16:48.

I used the handy Mac Ports (http://www.macports.org/) to obtain the cdrtools package which contains mkisofs.

For nasm I had it already installed, but it's also available from MacPorts; I cant remeberer installing directly it myself; but I am wondering if it came with XCode.

For my java dev I had already installed ant using a package from another useful soure 'fink' (http://www.finkproject.org/)

To switch system wide java versions goto Applcations->Utilities->Java Preferences

To set the java for temporarily for the current shell/terminal session you can alternatively to the previous post suggestion use:

export PATH=/System/Library/Frameworks/JavaVM.framework/Versions/1.6/Commands:$PATH