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Installation on macOS Platforms #
GraalVM is available for macOS on x64 and AArch64 architectures. You can install GraalVM on macOS:
Note that on macOS the JDK installation path is: /Library/Java/JavaVirtualMachines/<graalvm>/Contents/Home/.
Select the installation option that you prefer.
SDKMAN! #
Install Oracle GraalVM with SDKMAN!:
sdk install java <version>-graal
To install GraalVM Community Edition, change the distribution from graal
to graalce
in the command.
SDKMAN! helps you install and easily switch between JDKs. Check which GraalVM releases are available for installation by running:
sdk list java
From an Archive #
Install GraalVM from an archive (.tar.gz) for the current user into any location, without affecting other JDK installations.
-
Navigate to the GraalVM Downloads page. Select the Java version, macOS for the operating system, x64 or aarch64 for the architecture, and download.
- Unzip the archive.
tar -xzf graalvm-jdk-<version>_macos-<architecture>.tar.gz
Alternatively, open the file in Finder.
- Move the downloaded package to its proper location, the /Library/Java/JavaVirtualMachines/ directory. Since this is a system directory,
sudo
is required:sudo mv graalvm-jdk-<version>_macos-<architecture> /Library/Java/JavaVirtualMachines
To verify if the move is successful and to get a list of all installed JDKs, run
/usr/libexec/java_home -V
. - There can be multiple JDKs installed on the machine. The next step is to configure the runtime environment:
- Set the
JAVA_HOME
environment variable to resolve to the GraalVM installation directory:export JAVA_HOME=/Library/Java/JavaVirtualMachines/<graalvm>/Contents/Home
- Set the value of the
PATH
environment variable to the GraalVM bin/ directory:export PATH=/Library/Java/JavaVirtualMachines/<graalvm>/Contents/Home/bin:$PATH
- Set the
To confirm that the installation was successful, run the java -version
command.
Optionally, you can specify GraalVM as the default JRE or JDK installation in your Java IDE.
Script-Friendly URLs #
Script-friendly URLs enable you to download GraalVM from a command line, or automatically in your script and Dockerfile by using a download URL.
Substitute <version>
and <architecture>
with the JDK version and aarch64
or x64
architecture.
# Download with wget
wget https://download.oracle.com/graalvm/<version>/latest/graalvm-jdk-<version>_macos-<architecture>_bin.tar.gz
# Download with curl
curl https://download.oracle.com/graalvm/<version>/latest/graalvm-jdk-<version>_macos-<architecture>_bin.tar.gz
# Download from archive
curl https://download.oracle.com/java/<version>/archive/jdk-<version>_macos-<architecture>_bin.tar.gz
For other installation options, visit the GraalVM Downloads page.
Installation Notes #
On JAVA_HOME Command #
The information property file, Info.plist, is in the top level Contents/ directory.
This means that GraalVM participates in the macOS-specific /usr/libexec/java_home
mechanism.
Depending on other JDK installation(s) available, it is now possible that /usr/libexec/java_home -v23
returns /Library/Java/JavaVirtualMachines/<graalvm>/Contents/Home
.
You can run /usr/libexec/java_home -v23 -V
to see the complete list of JVMs available to the java_home
command.
This command sorts the JVMs in decreasing version order and chooses the top one as the default for the specified version.