Build Infrastructure Group

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

Introduction

The JDK basically uses a traditional configure && make style of building, but the underlying design of the configure 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 test the JDK, please see the following resources for instructions:

• Building the JDK
• Testing the JDK

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

If you have additional questions, please feel free to subscribe to our mailing list and ask questions!

Documentation

• Instructions for building the current JDK .
• Instructions for testing the current JDK.

• Build documentation for older releases is archived in the corresponding repositories. See doc/building.md (or README-builds.html prior to JDK 9) in the repository.

• The Build Group has a (at the moment very outdated) Wiki page, and another mostly outdated list of supported build platforms.

• Code Conventions for the Build System

Community

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

Sponsored Projects

• Build Infrastructure Project