Notes on building GraalVM native-image itself

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theyre at a deeper level in the project
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5:47 PM
https://github.com/oracle/graal/blob/master/substratevm/README.md
substratevm/README.md

Substrate VM

Introduction

Substrate VM is a framework that allows ahead-of-time (AOT) compilation of Java applications under closed-world assumption into executable images or shared objects (ELF-64 or 64-bit Mach-O).
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5:48 PM
and I got through some issues with this: https://github.com/oracle/graal/blob/master/.travis.yml#L108-L110
.travis.yml:108-110

• echo ${JAVA_HOME}
• ${JAVA_HOME}/bin/java -version
• mx --primary-suite-path ${TRAVIS_BUILD_DIR}/${PRIMARY} --J @"-Xmx2g" --java-home=${JAVA_HOME} gate --strict-mode --tags ${GATE}
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  5:50 PM
  just helped me get my mx args right
  5:50 PM
  what to pass in
  5:51 PM
  check above for var examples for different builds