Platform and Component Requirements

Here is a list of platforms and components, we were able to build GlueGen on,
if not stated otherwise.
  • Java
    • Build & Runtime: An OpenJDK 11 compliant SDK.
    • Runtime: An OpenJDK 8 compliant JRE.
    You may find an appropriate OpenJDK build @ AdoptOpenJDK.

    Or you may try one of the following SDK's and/or Runtimes:
  • Ant 1.10.5 or later
  • Git 2.0.4 or later
  • FreeBSD x86, 32- and 64-bit, ...
    • FreeBSD 12 or later (todo: test)
      • openjdk11
      • ant
      • git
      • awk
      • p7zip-full ???
      • gcc
      • cmake
  • GNU Linux x86, 32- and 64-bit as well as Arm64, etc
    You may have to install a few developer packages ...
    • Debian 10 or later
      • openjdk-11-jre
      • openjdk-11-jdk
      • ant
      • git
      • gawk
      • p7zip-full
      • gcc
      • cmake
      One liner install command:
      • Debian 10 Buster 
        apt-get install openjdk-11-jre openjdk-11-jdk ant git-all gawk p7zip-full gcc cmake
      Optional: Add kernel build utilities: 
      apt-get install kernel-package build-essential
      Optional: Add multiarch i386 next to amd64
      • Debian 10 Buster 
        dpkg --add-architecture i386
apt-get update
apt-get install lib32z1 lib32ncurses5 gcc-multilib lib32gcc1 lib32gomp1 lib32itm1 lib32quadmath0 libudev1:i386 libc6-i386 libc6-dev-i386 g++-multilib lib32stdc++6 openjdk-11-jre:i386 openjdk-11-jdk:i386
    • OpenSuSE 15.0 or later
      • java-11-openjdk
      • ant
      • git
      • gawk
      • p7zip-full
      • gcc
      • cmake
    • CentOS 7 / Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.6 or later
      • java-11-openjdk
      • ant
      • git
      • gawk
      • p7zip-full
      • gcc
      • cmake
  • Android/Linux Version 7.0 Nougat API Level 24 or later
    • any of the above GNU/Linux x86_64 hosts for crosscompilation
    • android ndk (todo: detail instructions)
    • android sdk (todo: detail instructions)
  • OpenSolaris Derivatives SPARC and x86, 32- and 64-bit
    • OpenIndiana using illumus's OpenSolaris continuation (todo: test)
  • MacOS and iOS Intel and Arm64
    • git ≥ 2.11 provided by Xcode ≥ 8.3.3
    • awk is provided by MacOS
    • CMake 3.15.2, and install the command line tools
    • Mac OS 10.13 or later (note: may not work with earlier releases)
    • Xcode 8.3.3 or later for gcc, etc (included in MacOS)
  • Windows/x86 (32 bit)
  • Windows/x86_64 (64-bit)

CMake has been added here for JOAL and JOGL.

Additional platforms such as FreeBSD and HP/UX are handled by the build system, but are not officially supported.

Build Steps

Here are the steps that are required in order to build GlueGen.

  1. Optain the source code using git:
    It is crucial that you checkout the source code under a common root directory: 
        /home/dude/projects/jogamp> git clone --recurse-submodules git://jogamp.org/srv/scm/gluegen.git gluegen
    Now you should have following directory structure: 
        /home/dude/projects/jogamp
    /home/dude/projects/jogamp/gluegen

    Note-1: The GlueGen source must be fetched using -recurse-submodules, which imports JCPP, now used as the default C preprocessor.

  2. Unset your CLASSPATH environment variable:
    The Ant build requires that the GlueGen jars not be visible on the classpath. On Unix, type unsetenv CLASSPATH into a csh or tcsh shell, or unset CLASSPATH into a Bourne shell. On Windows, type set CLASSPATH= into a command prompt.
  3. Optional Copy and edit gluegen.properties:
    To specify different basic options for components and compilers,
    copy gluegen/make/gluegen.properties into your home directory (pointed to by the Java system property user.home).
  4. Build the source tree:
    Open a command shell in the "gluegen/make" directory of the source tree and invoke ant with the given properties as follows 
        cd /home/dude/projects/jogamp/gluegen/make/
    ant -Dtarget.sourcelevel=1.8 -Dtarget.targetlevel=1.8 -Dtarget.rt.jar=/your/openjdk8/lib/rt.jar
    Alternatively you can also use environment variables instead of properties 
        export SOURCE_LEVEL=1.8
    export TARGET_LEVEL=1.8
    export TARGET_RT_JAR=/your/openjdk8/lib/rt.jar
    ant
    Optionally you can also set certain build features via properites or environment variables 
        Feature                Property                          or Environment Variable
    developer-zip-archive: build.archiveon=true                 BUILD_ARCHIVE=true
    Native Debug Code:     c.compiler.debug=true
    Java Debug Code:       javacdebuglevel="source,lines,vars"
  5. Test your build:
    Stay in your command shell in the "gluegen/make" directory of the source tree and invoke ant with above properties or environment variables and use the target junit.run.
  6. Build Javadoc:
    Stay in your command shell in the "gluegen/make" directory of the source tree and invoke ant with above properties or environment variables and use the target javadoc. This will produce the end-user documentation for GlueGen along with some auxiliary utility packages.
Note that there might be a few warnings produced by ANTLR about the C grammar and our modifications to some of the signatures of the productions; the C grammar warnings have been documented by the author of the grammar as having been investigated completely and harmless, and the warnings about our modifications are also harmless.

Common build problems

  1. Your CLASSPATH environment variable appears to be set (some GlueGen classes are currently visible to the build.), and $CLASSPATH isn't set. An older version of GlueGen was installed into the extension directory of the JDK you're using to build the current GlueGen. On Windows and Linux, delete any ANTLR jars from jre/lib/ext, and on Mac OS X, delete them from /Library/Java/Extensions. It is generally not a good idea to drop GlueGen directly into the extensions directory, as this can interfere with upgrades via Java Web Start.
  2. CharScanner; panic: ClassNotFoundException: com.jogamp.gluegen.cgram.CToken This occurs because ANTLR was dropped into the Extensions directory of the JRE/JDK. On Windows and Linux, delete any ANTLR jars from jre/lib/ext, and on Mac OS X, delete them from /Library/Java/Extensions. Use the antlr.jar property in the build.xml to point to a JRE-external location of this jar file.

- Christopher Kline and Kenneth Russell, June 2003 (revised November 2006)
- Sven Gothel and Michael Bien, May 2010
- Sven Gothel, March 2010 (Extracted version from JOGL)