| 17 Jul 2025 |
 Infinidoge 🏳️⚧️ | Godot's page about it makes it seem... extremely not fun | 17:59:57 |
| Infinidoge 🏳️⚧️ | Not the worst, but not fun | 18:00:08 |
 emily | uhh, why does Xcode even come into this | 18:00:09 |
| Infinidoge 🏳️⚧️ | From what I remember of the PR, compiling the JDK properly for Darwin required Xcode | 18:00:29 |
| emily | we have a full native LLVM toolchain and macOS SDK in Nixpkgs | 18:00:33 |
| Infinidoge 🏳️⚧️ | Cool that works then | 18:00:44 |
| emily | you only need Xcode itself in rare cases like the metal command-line tool or ibtool | 18:00:45 |
| emily | it's not inconceivable that the WebKit build in OpenJFX wants metal or something but I'd be extremely surprised for OpenJDK | 18:01:05 |
| emily | ok, this is before the 24.11 SDK rework also | 18:01:40 |
| emily | so everything was very different/harder then | 18:02:04 |
| emily | I truly think it's probably as easy as turning off GTK/JavaFX, maybe turning off the X11 dependencies, maybe adjusting some of the prefixed tool stuff, and firing off a build | 18:03:37 |
| emily | I could give pointers for any particular errors that come up but I don't expect any "fundamental" obstacle | 18:04:02 |
 msgilligan | I'm tempted to dive into this right now, but I really have too much I'm already committed to on my plate. And it is a task that is currently above my skill level, so I don't think it would be easy for me. I wish I had more time. | 18:12:28 |
| msgilligan | I'd like to make sure two things from this conversation are captured in GitHub Issues:
- The idea of using
jlink to add OpenJFX to Temurin. Which should allow Darwin to use Temurin rather than Zulu.
- Whatever technical details emily is explaining above that are not already covered by existing issues.
| 18:15:15 |
| emily | FWIW I haven't actually tried the jlink thing so I could be wrong about how it works :) | 18:18:30 |
| emily | feel free to open issues though | 18:18:41 |
| emily | I think in any case that it's likely not too hard to get OpenJFX building from source on Darwin even if jlink doesn't work. but I would really rather avoid building two JDKs in general | 18:18:57 |
| emily | it makes testing them a pain too | 18:19:02 |
| msgilligan | That's fine, I just want to make an issue to capture the idea, so someone can try it. | 18:19:09 |
| emily | I would prefer even avoiding the jlink thing but I don't understand Java modules enough to determine whether it's possible (other than telling people to get OpenJFX from Maven) | 18:19:23 |
| emily | I get the impression that nothing except OpenJFX actually uses them | 18:19:31 |
| msgilligan | I'm a big advocate of Java modules and I feel like I've been swimming upstream for the last 6 years. But the current is getting weaker and modules are beginning to be accepted. | 18:20:39 |
| msgilligan | OpenJFX made a bad decision to pretty much force modules on people and that's caused a lot of pain. | 18:20:57 |
| msgilligan | * OpenJFX made a bad decision to ~~pretty much~~ by default force modules on people and that's caused a lot of pain. | 18:21:33 |
| emily | I assume we can't do anything as simple as just JAVA_MODULES_PATH=${openjfx} to make existing builds that expect it to be built-in work. | 18:21:47 |
| msgilligan | * OpenJFX made a bad decision to pretty much by default force modules on people and that's caused a lot of pain. | 18:21:56 |
| emily | FWIW, while I sympathize with the overcommitted part (or I'd just have done all of this stuff already), I think you overestimate the skill level required to twiddle some flags until you get a new build error :) I expect nobody has even tried to build our OpenJDK source package on Darwin in a long time | 18:22:54 |
| msgilligan | I will try to take a look at it in a few weeks, if nobody else has. | 18:23:59 |
| msgilligan | I guess this issue is the one for building OpenJDK on Darwin: https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/issues/313213 | 18:24:46 |
| msgilligan | * I will try to take a look at it in a few weeks September (or so), if nobody else has. | 18:42:59 |
