I'm trying to setup an environment in which I would be able to change the Hotspot vm GC source code. I cloned the jdk8 repository as instructed here: http://openjdk.java.net/projects/jdk8/ and after a lot of effort succedded in compiling the whole project (including the hotspot project).
I have all the compilation results in a release folder, but couldn't find any executable or any other way to run\use the hotspot vm.
Does someone maybe had a similar experience with this project and can help me figure this out? Thanks very much
According to the OpenJDK 8 build instructions:
When the build is completed, you should see the generated binaries and associated files in the j2sdk-image directory in the output directory. In particular, the build/*/images/j2sdk-image/bin directory should contain executables for the OpenJDK tools and utilities for that configuration.