gradle – California Sunshine

I had good experience with Nexus OSS 2.x and it was very easy to use. Based on it, the team built up Maven proxy server and Java private repository. The server had been served for many years and it helped team to finish thousands of builds without any problem.

To have better NPM repository support, it’s time to upgrade to a newer version of Nexus. Compared with JFrog’s Artifactory OSS, NPM and Gradle repository support is included in Nexus OSS version already.

Installation

The latest Nexus OSS version can be download from here. Unzip it and go to /bin folder to start it. I am using Windows 10, so Nexus OSS can be installed as a Windows Service. Then you can start/stop the Nexus OSS server in Services Management.

./nexus.exe install

1	./nexus.exe install

When server starts, you can access the web page, default is http://localhost:8081.

Note: For the first time run, there needs to update the admin user’s password. Follow the instructions to finish it.

Create NPM repository

By default, there are Maven repo (can be used by Gradle as well) and NuGet repo. To have a NPM repo, you need to manually create it.

Use “admin” to log into Nexus, Open “Repositories” page and click “Create repository“.

Select “npm proxy” in the Recipe list,

Put a name of the repository, such as “npm-all” and the “remote storage”.

Click “Create repository” to finish the creation. Now a npm proxy server is ready for serving. The repo URL is http://localhost:8081/repository/npm-all/.

NPM and Yarn Configuration

For npm and yarn, you can use the following commands to use this proxy server respectively.

# npm
npm config set registry http://localhost:8081/repository/npm-all/

# yarn
yarn config set registry http://localhost:8081/repository/npm-all/

# npm

npm config set registry http://localhost:8081/repository/npm-all/

# yarn

yarn config set registry http://localhost:8081/repository/npm-all/

All done!

OpenJDK 8 doesn’t include OpenJFX by default. And to make OpenJFX work on old Linux distribution, such as CentOS 6.7, you can not simply follow the official instructions. This article will talk about how to build OpenJFX 8 in CentOS 6.7 docker container.

Start docker container

With docker, it’s extremely easy to get CentOS 6.7 environment.

docker pull centos:6.7
docker run -it centos:6.7

1 2	docker pull centos:6.7 docker run -it centos:6.7

Instructions

Yum Install Packages

yum install mercurial bison flex gperf ksh pkgconfig \
    libpng12-devel libjpeg-devel libxml2-devel \
    libxslt-devel systemd-devel glib2-devel  gtk2-devel \
    libXtst-devel pango-devel freetype-devel wget unzip vim java-1.8.0-openjdk-devel java-1.8.0-openjdk java-1.8.0-openjdk-headless \
    libXxf86vm-devel mesa-libGL-devel perl-Time-HiRes tar perl-JSON

yum install mercurial bison flex gperf ksh pkgconfig \

libpng12-devel libjpeg-devel libxml2-devel \

libxslt-devel systemd-devel glib2-devel gtk2-devel \

libXtst-devel pango-devel freetype-devel wget unzip vim java-1.8.0-openjdk-devel java-1.8.0-openjdk java-1.8.0-openjdk-headless \

libXxf86vm-devel mesa-libGL-devel perl-Time-HiRes tar perl-JSON

Install GCC/G++ 6, Python 2.7, Ruby 2.4

Reference is https://www.softwarecollections.org/en/scls/rhscl/devtoolset-6/.

yum install centos-release-scl
yum install devtoolset-6
yum install python27
yum install rh-ruby24
scl enable devtoolset-6 bash
scl enable python27 bash
scl enable rh-ruby24 bash

yum install centos-release-scl

yum install devtoolset-6

yum install python27

yum install rh-ruby24

scl enable devtoolset-6 bash

scl enable python27 bash

scl enable rh-ruby24 bash

Install Gradle, CMake, Ant

Install gradle 4.8 and ant 1.10, update $PATH.

root@host ~# wget https://services.gradle.org/distributions/gradle-4.8-bin.zip
root@host ~# unzip gradle-4.8-bin.zip
root@host ~# wget http://mirror.cogentco.com/pub/apache//ant/binaries/apache-ant-1.10.5-bin.zip
root@host ~# unzip apache-ant-1.10.5-bin.zip
root@host ~# wget https://github.com/Kitware/CMake/releases/download/v3.13.4/cmake-3.13.4.tar.gz
root@host ~# tar xf cmake-3.13.4.tar.gz
root@host ~# export PATH=/root/apache-ant-1.10.5/bin:/root/gradle-4.8/bin:/root/cmake-3.13.4-Linux-x86_64/bin:$PATH

root@host ~# wget https://services.gradle.org/distributions/gradle-4.8-bin.zip

root@host ~# unzip gradle-4.8-bin.zip

root@host ~# wget http://mirror.cogentco.com/pub/apache//ant/binaries/apache-ant-1.10.5-bin.zip

root@host ~# unzip apache-ant-1.10.5-bin.zip

root@host ~# wget https://github.com/Kitware/CMake/releases/download/v3.13.4/cmake-3.13.4.tar.gz

root@host ~# tar xf cmake-3.13.4.tar.gz

root@host ~# export PATH=/root/apache-ant-1.10.5/bin:/root/gradle-4.8/bin:/root/cmake-3.13.4-Linux-x86_64/bin:$PATH

Sync OpenJFX 8 source code

hg clone http://hg.openjdk.java.net/openjfx/8u-dev/rt

1	hg clone http://hg.openjdk.java.net/openjfx/8u-dev/rt

Build without Webkit

Skip the samples and scene-builder build – “vim rt/build.gradle” and comment on the following lines

def appsJar = project.task("appsJar${t.capital}") {
     dependsOn(sdk, getLucene)
     doLast() {
       ant.properties['targetBld'] = "$t.name"
       if (!rootProject.ext[t.upper].compileSwing) {
         ant.properties['JFX_CORE_ONLY'] = 'true'
       }
       ant.properties['jfxbuild.jfxrt.jar'] = jfxrtJar
       ant.properties['platforms.JDK_1.8.home'] = "${rootProject.ext.JDK_HOME}"

       // comment the following several lines
       // ant.project.executeTarget("sampleAppsJar")
       // ant.project.executeTarget("scenebuilderSampleAppsJar")

       // if (!t.name.startsWith("arm")) {
       //   ant.project.executeTarget("scenebuilderAppJar")
       // }
     }
 }
 rootProject.appsjar.dependsOn(appsJar)

 def appsClean = project.task("appsClean${t.capital}") {
     doLast() {
       ant.properties['targetBld'] = "$t.name"
       ant.properties['platforms.JDK_1.8.home'] = "${rootProject.ext.JDK_HOME}"

       // comment the following several lines
       // ant.project.executeTarget("sampleAppsClean")
       // ant.project.executeTarget("scenebuilderSampleAppsClean")
       // if (!t.name.startsWith("arm")) {
       //   ant.project.executeTarget("scenebuilderAppClean")
       // }
       // delete(ensembleLibDir);
     }
 }
 rootProject.clean.dependsOn(appsClean)

				
					
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						def appsJar = project.task("appsJar${t.capital}") {
     dependsOn(sdk, getLucene)
     doLast() {
       ant.properties['targetBld'] = "$t.name"
       if (!rootProject.ext[t.upper].compileSwing) {
         ant.properties['JFX_CORE_ONLY'] = 'true'
       }
       ant.properties['jfxbuild.jfxrt.jar'] = jfxrtJar
       ant.properties['platforms.JDK_1.8.home'] = "${rootProject.ext.JDK_HOME}"
 
       // comment the following several lines
       // ant.project.executeTarget("sampleAppsJar")
       // ant.project.executeTarget("scenebuilderSampleAppsJar")
 
       // if (!t.name.startsWith("arm")) {
       //   ant.project.executeTarget("scenebuilderAppJar")
       // }
     }
 }
 rootProject.appsjar.dependsOn(appsJar)
 
 def appsClean = project.task("appsClean${t.capital}") {
     doLast() {
       ant.properties['targetBld'] = "$t.name"
       ant.properties['platforms.JDK_1.8.home'] = "${rootProject.ext.JDK_HOME}"
 
       // comment the following several lines
       // ant.project.executeTarget("sampleAppsClean")
       // ant.project.executeTarget("scenebuilderSampleAppsClean")
       // if (!t.name.startsWith("arm")) {
       //   ant.project.executeTarget("scenebuilderAppClean")
       // }
       // delete(ensembleLibDir);
     }
 }
 rootProject.clean.dependsOn(appsClean)

					

			

Start Gradle build.

# go to the source folder and start the gradle build.
cd rt
gradle
gradle zips

# go to the source folder and start the gradle build.

cd rt

gradle

gradle zips

when the build is done, the javafx–sdk-overlay.zip will be generated.

[root@8b5e71c7c0e3 bundles]# readlink -f javafx-sdk-overlay.zip
/root/rt/build/bundles/javafx-sdk-overlay.zip

1 2	[root@8b5e71c7c0e3 bundles]# readlink -f javafx-sdk-overlay.zip /root/rt/build/bundles/javafx-sdk-overlay.zip

Build with Webkit

With WebKit, the compilation will become extremely slow.

Before doing the steps of “Build without Webkit”, do the following extra steps.

Copy the gradle.properties from the template and enable the Webkit compiling

cp gradle.properties.template gradle.properties

1	cp gradle.properties.template gradle.properties

Enable “COMPILE_WEBKIT“, “BUILD_JAVADOC“, “BUILD_SRC_ZIP“, And specify COMPILE_TARGETS as “linux”

COMPILE_WEBKIT = true
#COMPILE_MEDIA = true

#To disable building support for JRockit Flight Recorder, uncomment the line below

#COMPILE_JFR = false

# so dfs to speed up the time in incremental builds. Uncomment this flag in order to
# build all the JavaDoc

BUILD_JAVADOC = true

# The building of the javafx-src bundle takes time. By default we disable the
# building of javafx-src so as to speed up the time in incremental builds.
# Uncomment this flag in order to build javafx-src.zip

BUILD_SRC_ZIP = true

.....


COMPILE_TARGETS = linux

				
					
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						COMPILE_WEBKIT = true
#COMPILE_MEDIA = true
 
#To disable building support for JRockit Flight Recorder, uncomment the line below
 
#COMPILE_JFR = false
 
# so dfs to speed up the time in incremental builds. Uncomment this flag in order to
# build all the JavaDoc
 
BUILD_JAVADOC = true
 
# The building of the javafx-src bundle takes time. By default we disable the
# building of javafx-src so as to speed up the time in incremental builds.
# Uncomment this flag in order to build javafx-src.zip
 
BUILD_SRC_ZIP = true
 
.....
 
 
COMPILE_TARGETS = linux

					

			

Update buildSrc/linux.gradle a little bit.

...

// def compiler = IS_COMPILE_PARFAIT ? "parfait-gcc" : "${toolchainDir}gcc";
def compiler = IS_COMPILE_PARFAIT ? "parfait-gcc" : "/opt/rh/devtoolset-6/root/usr/bin/gcc";
// def linker = IS_COMPILE_PARFAIT ? "parfait-g++" : "${toolchainDir}g++";
def linker = IS_COMPILE_PARFAIT ? "parfait-g++" : "/opt/rh/devtoolset-6/root/usr/bin/g++";

...

...

// def compiler = IS_COMPILE_PARFAIT ? "parfait-gcc" : "${toolchainDir}gcc";

def compiler = IS_COMPILE_PARFAIT ? "parfait-gcc" : "/opt/rh/devtoolset-6/root/usr/bin/gcc";

// def linker = IS_COMPILE_PARFAIT ? "parfait-g++" : "${toolchainDir}g++";

def linker = IS_COMPILE_PARFAIT ? "parfait-g++" : "/opt/rh/devtoolset-6/root/usr/bin/g++";

...

Update the symbolic link of /usr/bin/python2

[root@8b5e71c7c0e3 rt]# rm /usr/bin/python2
rm: remove symbolic link `/usr/bin/python2'? y
[root@8b5e71c7c0e3 rt]# ln -s /opt/rh/python27/root/usr/bin/python /usr/bin/python2

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						[root@8b5e71c7c0e3 rt]# rm /usr/bin/python2
rm: remove symbolic link `/usr/bin/python2'? y
[root@8b5e71c7c0e3 rt]# ln -s /opt/rh/python27/root/usr/bin/python /usr/bin/python2

Do the steps of “Build without Webkit“.

Tag: gradle

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