[aspectj-dev] Building AspectJ on a Mac

[Lennart Jörelid <lennart.jorelid@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hello all,

I am attempting to build AspectJ from scratch on a Mac.

So far, I'm getting some incorrect classpath exceptions, which means I have 2 questions:

1. In decently recent Macs, only JDK 6 (Apple JDK) and JDK 7 (Oracle JDK) are available. In choosing from these options, I configured the local.properties to use JDK 7 (I think, could not find a description on the configuration options in local.properties). Did I choose correctly, as per the local.properties below?
2. Trying to follow the described build steps in the build/readme-build-and-test-aspectj.html document, the build bombs with the exception below. This seems to indicate that the tools.jar is not part of the classpath. Though I have found the variable jdk.tools.jar in a build.xml file, it does not seem to be used properly. Could you help me out here, please?

local.properties:

# for non-release builds, versions should all be DEVELOPMENT

# except for build.version.base

build.version=DEVELOPMENT

build.version.base=1.7

build.version.long=DEVELOPMENT

build.version.short=DEVELOPMENT

# Repo version is for maven (as built with 'ant repo')

repo.version=1.6.4

# java11.home=c:/home/apps/jdk11

# java13.home=c:/home/apps/jdk13

# java14.home=c:/home/apps/jdk14

# java15.home=c:/home/apps/jdk15

# java16.home=/System/Library/Java/JavaVirtualMachines/1.6.0.jdk/Contents/Home

java17.home=/Library/Java/JavaVirtualMachines/jdk1.7.0_45.jdk/Contents/Home

Build error

[ajbuild] ... /ajdoc/src/org/aspectj/tools/ajdoc/JavadocRunner.java:27: error: package com.sun.tools.javadoc does not exist

  [ajbuild] Class jdMainClass = com.sun.tools.javadoc.Main.class;

  [ajbuild]                                         ^

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