Thanks, Dave.
This is a great step forward and is a necessary piece to enable us to
eventually move to a later JDK 9 for building JavaFX (we are stuck at
build 109 for now).
-- Kevin
David Hill wrote:
We have a new trick in the FX repo to help with running FX apps backed
by a Jigsaw enabled build.
If you build FX with JIGSAW_HOME set to a JDK 9 build later than build
110, then the Jigsaw modules will be generated. These modules can be
used with -Xpatch to override the modules in JDK9. Unfortunately each
module must be listed separately, and we need a -Djava.library.path to
find the built native libraries - a very verbose command line...
But... recently added to the build, a new file is now created:
build/xpatch.args that has all of this for you.
export JIGSAW_HOME="path_to_top_of_JDK9"
export JFX_BUILD="path_to_top_of_your_repo"
alias javafx='$JIGSAW_HOME/bin/java @$JFX_BUILD/build/xpatch.args'
This alias uses the @argfile mechanism to include all that
Xpatch/java.library.path verbosity to create a single command to run
FX backed by your recently built binaries.
Get your Jigsaw enabled JDK9 preview here:
https://jdk9.java.net/download/
