Build instructions for the latest stable version VisualVM 1.3.8. If you want to build different version use links below:
svn checkout https://svn.java.net/svn/visualvm~svn/branches/release138
There are two suites:
The layout in SVN for VisualVM 1.3.8 release is:
To build the visualvm core tool you need the NetBeans 8.0 platform and profiler binaries available
here.
These binaries must be extracted into the release138/visualvm directory. You can use ant run
or ant build-zip
to build or run VisualVM.
To build the plugins suite, use ant build
or ant run
. This will automatically
build the zip distribution of the visualvm core tool into release138/visualvm/dist/visualvm.zip and extract
it into the release138/plugins/visualvm directory. After that the build of the plugins suite continues to
build each of the individual plugins.