I've been following the instructions shown on http://visualvm.java.net/build/build.html when attempting to build JVisualVM.
I checked out the trunk to my hard-drive, I've downloaded http://java.net/projects/visualvm/downloads/download/dev/nb73_visualvm_14012013.zip and extracted its contents to the visualvm/
directory, as asked:
To build the visualvm core tool you need the NetBeans 7.3 platform and profiler binaries available here. These binaries must be extracted into the trunk/visualvm directory. You can use ant run or ant build-zip to build or run VisualVM.
When executing ant run
I got a:
compile:
[mkdir] Created dir: C:\Users\user\Desktop\jvisualvm\visualvm\applicationviews\build\classes
[nb-javac] Compiling 19 source files to C:\Users\user\Desktop\jvisualvm\visualvm\applicationviews\build\classes
[nb-javac] warning: [options] bootstrap class path not set in conjunction with -source 1.5
[nb-javac] C:\Users\user\Desktop\jvisualvm\visualvm\applicationviews\src\com\sun\tools\visualvm\application\views\threads\ThreadMXBeanDataManager.java:117: e
rror: cannot find symbol
[nb-javac] super(dummyLong, CommonConstants.SERVER_RUNNING, CommonConstants.SERVER_PROGRESS_INDETERMINATE);
[nb-javac] ^
[nb-javac] symbol: variable SERVER_RUNNING
[nb-javac] location: interface CommonConstants
[nb-javac] C:\Users\user\Desktop\jvisualvm\visualvm\applicationviews\src\com\sun\tools\visualvm\application\views\threads\ThreadMXBeanDataManager.java:117: e
rror: cannot find symbol
[nb-javac] super(dummyLong, CommonConstants.SERVER_RUNNING, CommonConstants.SERVER_PROGRESS_INDETERMINATE);
[nb-javac] ^
[nb-javac] symbol: variable SERVER_PROGRESS_INDETERMINATE
[nb-javac] location: interface CommonConstants
[nb-javac] Note: Some input files use unchecked or unsafe operations.
[nb-javac] Note: Recompile with -Xlint:unchecked for details.
[nb-javac] 2 errors
[nb-javac] 1 warning
I've even installed Netbeans 7.3 but that didn' seem to help a bit!
I'm quite new to these matters, am I missing something?