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The following instructions are valid for a default installation of Ubuntu 18.04.2 LTS preinstalled with gcc make perl

	# The following is based on a fresh Ubuntu 18.04.2 LTS with gcc, make and perl already
	# installed (not that perl has anything to do with any of this..)
	#
	# This is based on JDK 11 but for JDK 12 I've confirmed it builds ok with binutils-2.29
	# and binutils-2.32

	apt install mercurial
	# Be nice if this didn't check out the universe
	hg clone http://hg.openjdk.java.net/jdk/jdk11/
	cd jdk11/src/utils/hsdis/
	# Newer versions of binutils don't appear to compile, must use 2.28 for JDK 11
	wget http://ftp.heanet.ie/mirrors/ftp.gnu.org/gnu/binutils/binutils-2.28.tar.gz
	tar xzvf binutils-2.28.tar.gz
	make BINUTILS=binutils-2.28 ARCH=amd64

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For JDK 12 the same works except I've only confirmed it with binutils-2.29 and binutils-2.32

I wanted to build hsdis for my Ubuntu system. Virtually all of the instructions out there are slightly wrong. As per the comment on this gist a recent change (bbd1da3f538f) to the HotSpot source to be compatible with binutils 2.29 broke all the prior instructions. So literally.. my contribution here is to publicly point this out and offer copy and pasta instructions to solve it.

	sudo apt-get install libgmp-dev libmpfr-dev libmpc-dev g++-multilib mercurial texinfo
	hg clone http://hg.openjdk.java.net/jdk8u/jdk8u
	cd jdk8u
	hg update jdk8u92-b14
	sed -ri 's/subrepos="[^"]+"/subrepos="hotspot"/' ./make/scripts/hgforest.sh # only get hotspot
	sed -ri 's/subrepos="[^"]+"/subrepos="hotspot"/' ./common/bin/hgforest.sh # only get hotspot
	chmod +x ./get_source.sh; ./get_source.sh
	cd hotspot/src/share/tools/hsdis
	wget http://ftp.heanet.ie/mirrors/ftp.gnu.org/gnu/binutils/binutils-2.29.tar.gz
	tar -xzf binutils-2.29.tar.gz
	sed -ri 's/development=.*/development=false/' ./binutils-2.29/bfd/development.sh # set development to false
	make BINUTILS=binutils-2.29 ARCH=amd64
	sudo cp build/linux-amd64/hsdis-amd64.so /usr/lib/jvm/java-8-openjdk-amd64/jre/lib/amd64/server/

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Gist: https://gist.github.com/kay/ec70aa7469d216ab88eb411d8dab187d

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