OpenJDK 8 on macOS PowerPC

[barracuda156]

The latest release of JDK8 (2024).

There is a caveat, it is built as headless, so no GUI. But otherwise it appears working.

(Silly ObjC complaints are nothing PowerPC-specific and do not affect functionality, but I do not know how to get rid of them. Upstream apparently fixed them at some point, but used clangisms, so made it incompatible with gcc.)

 

[pipetogrep]

Might be fun to try running Airsonic with this. One could point it at their iTunes library.

 

[barracuda156]

Updated to the latest release.

Can be tried from https://github.com/macports/macports-ports/pull/25186
Tested on 10.6 ppc and 10.5.8 (no idea re Tiger).

 

[barracuda156]

Might be fun to try running Airsonic with this. One could point it at their iTunes library.

Available in MacPorts now: https://ports.macports.org/port/openjdk8-powerpc

Building on a single core should be straightforward. On a multi-core machine, a safer way (but longer) is to modify MacPorts settings (/opt/local/etc/macports.conf) use a single core (buildmakejobs 1).
If you prefer building in parallel, linking may fail at some point, but there is an easy workaround. Ping me here in such a case, I will explain what to do. (I am not sure if the issue is even relevant for Leopard, maybe it is specific to 10.6 ppc.)

 

[barracuda156]

The port has been updated to the latest release 8u432.

Also now you can just install `openjdk8`, and it will pull in `openjdk8-powerpc` automatically.