This is a GraalVM community edition installation guide on Windows 10, Linux and Mac systems. Getting GraalVM installed and ready-to-go should only take a few minutes. Choose a platform and proceed to the installation steps :
GraalVM is a Java Virtual Machine (JVM) and Java Development Kit (JDK) created by Oracle. It supports additional programming languages such as Java, Scala, and Kotlin, but also to other programming languages such as JavaScript, Ruby, Python, and R. Additionally, it enables the execution of native code via an LLVM front-end, and WebAssembly programs on the JVM.
1. Installation
Follow these steps to install GraalVM Community Edition on x86 64-bit Windows.
1. There are distributions available based on OpenJDK 8 and OpenJDK 11, you can choose any one of them. Download GraalVM CE form GraalVM Releases repository on GitHub . We will focus on GRaalVM CE based on OpenJDK 11 which is graalvm-ce-java11-windows-amd64-20.1.0.zip.
2. Unzip the archive to your file system.
3. Configure GRAALVM_HOME and PATH environment variables.
3.1. Manual Configuration : Right Click on “My Computer” –> Select “Properties” option –> Select “Advanced system setting” option –> click on “Environment variables..” button –> click on “New..” under system variable –> then set the “GRAALVM_HOME” and your downloaded archive extracted location like following image.
Similarly Add “JAVA_HOME” system variable. JAVA_HOME also set to “Z:\D\graalvm\graalvm-ce-java11-20.1.0”.
To set Path environment variable for GraalVM select “Path” under System variables and click on “Edit..” button. A new window opens –> click on “New” –> set GraalVM bin directory path ( Ex: “Z:\D\graalvm\graalvm-ce-java11-20.1.0\bin”) in the field –>click “Ok” button.
3.2. Using Command Line : Start windows command prompt as administrator and issue the following commands.
Set GRAALVM_HOME :
setx /M GRAALVM_HOME "Z:\D\graalvm\graalvm-ce-java11-20.1.0"
Set JAVA_HOME : To run your java programs on GraalVM
$ setx /M JAVA_HOME "Z:\D\graalvm\graalvm-ce-java11-20.1.0"
Set Path System Variable :
$ setx /M PATH "Z:\D\graalvm\graalvm-ce-java11-20.1.0;%PATH%"
4. Test the Setup :
To test your setup working properly, restart your command prompt and issue command java -version you will get following results.
$ java -version openjdk version "11.0.7" 2020-04-14 OpenJDK Runtime Environment GraalVM CE 20.1.0 (build 11.0.7+10-jvmci-20.1-b02) OpenJDK 64-Bit Server VM GraalVM CE 20.1.0 (build 11.0.7+10-jvmci-20.1-b02, mixed mode, sharing)
5. Your GraalVM setup is done.
Follow these steps to install GraalVM Community Edition on x86 64-bit Linux operating systems. (This setup was done on Linux Ubuntu)
1. Download GraalVM CE form GraalVM Releases repository on GitHub . We will focus on GRaalVM CE based on OpenJDK 11 which is graalvm-ce-java11-linux-amd64-20.1.0.zip.
2. If you wants to download from command line, you can use following command.
$ wget -P "Path Where to download" "download URL"
Example :
$ wget -P /home/ubuntuadmin/Documents/ "https://github.com/graalvm/graalvm-ce-builds/releases/download/vm-20.1.0/graalvm-ce-java11-linux-amd64-20.1.0.tar.gz"
3. Extract the downloaded archive file. Navigate command to location Ex: $cd /home/ubuntuadmin/Documents/ and run following command.
$ tar xz -f graalvm-ce-java11-linux-amd64-20.1.0.tar.gz
4. Run Following commands to set Java and GraalVM environment variables.
$ sudo gedit ~/.bashrc OR sudo nano ~/.bashrc
File will open, add the following paths, make sure adjust the according to your actual paths.
GRAALVM_HOME="/home/ubuntuadmin/Documents/graalvm-ce-java11-20.1.0" JAVA_HOME="$GRAALVM_HOME" PATH="$JAVA_HOME/bin":"$GRAALVM_HOME/bin":$PATH
Save the file and run following command to refresh configuration settings.
$ source ~/.bashrc
5. Configuration done. To test the configuration run following command.
$ java -version
Upon successful configuration you will get output like following.
openjdk version "11.0.7" 2020-04-14 OpenJDK Runtime Environment GraalVM CE 20.1.0 (build 11.0.7+10-jvmci-20.1-b02) OpenJDK 64-Bit Server VM GraalVM CE 20.1.0 (build 11.0.7+10-jvmci-20.1-b02, mixed mode, sharing)
Follow these steps to install GraalVM Community on x86 64-bit macOS operating systems.
1. Download GraalVM CE form GraalVM Releases repository on GitHub . We will focus on GRaalVM CE based on OpenJDK 11 which is graalvm-ce-java11-darwin-amd64-20.1.0.zip.
2. Extract the archive to your file system. To extract it in the Downloads directory from the console, type:
$ tar -xvf ~/Downloads/graalvm-ce-java11-darwin-amd64-20.1.0.tar.gz -C ~/Downloads/
3. Move the obtained GraalVM to its proper location, the /Library/Java/JavaVirtualMachines directory. Since this is a system directory, sudo is required:
$ sudo mv ~/Downloads/graalvm-ce-java11-20.1.0 /Library/Java/JavaVirtualMachines
4. Open .bash_profile to set System environment variables.
$ sudo open -a TextEdit .bash_profile OR sudo nano .bash_profile
5. Add the following lines and save .bash_profile file.
export GRAALVM_HOME=/Library/Java/JavaVirtualMachines/graalvm-ce-java8-20.1.0/Contents/Home export JAVA_HOME=$GRAALVM_HOME export JAVA_HOME=$(/usr/libexec/java_home) export PATH=$JAVA_HOME/bin:$PATH
6. Refresh the settings from .bash_profile.
$ source .bash_profile
7. GraalVM setup is done on Mac OS, to test the setup run java -version command.
$ java -version openjdk version "11.0.7" 2020-04-14 OpenJDK Runtime Environment GraalVM CE 20.1.0 (build 11.0.7+10-jvmci-20.1-b02) OpenJDK 64-Bit Server VM GraalVM CE 20.1.0 (build 11.0.7+10-jvmci-20.1-b02, mixed mode, sharing)
2. Installing Additional Components
To add support for Python, R, Ruby or WebAssembly languages interpreters in GraalVM Community Edition, use a functional gu utility. To know the available additional components for your machine run $ gu available utility command. Following are the available components on Mac OS can be download and to be installed.
$ gu available Downloading: Component catalog from www.graalvm.org ComponentId Version Component name Origin -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- llvm-toolchain 20.1.0 LLVM.org toolchain github.com native-image 20.1.0 Native Image github.com python 20.1.0 Graal.Python github.com R 20.1.0 FastR github.com ruby 20.1.0 TruffleRuby github.com wasm 20.1.0 GraalWasm github.com
Installing native Image :
$ gu install native-image Downloading: Component catalog from www.graalvm.org Processing Component: Native Image Downloading: Component native-image: Native Image from github.com Installing new component: Native Image (org.graalvm.native-image, version 20.1.0)
3. Conclusion
In this guide, we have covered how to setup GraalVM on Windows 10 OS, on Linux Ubuntu OS and Mac OS.
