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keycloak/docs/building.md
Eric Eastwood a1f22f3ed4 Keycloak can only be built with JDK 17 or JDK 21
As experienced in https://github.com/keycloak/keycloak/issues/36541,
it fails to build in various ways if you try to
use JDK 23.

Also add instructions on how to specify JDK version when building
(helpful when you have multiple JDK versions installed).

Closes #36541

Signed-off-by: Eric Eastwood <contact@ericeastwood.com>
2025-01-17 19:53:07 +01:00

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## Building from source
Ensure you have **JDK 17** or **JDK 21** and Git installed
java -version
git --version
Newer versions of the JDK are not supported. If you have multiple JDK versions
installed, you can specify which one to use during the build by setting the `JAVA_HOME`
environment variable (this should be the directory containing `/bin/` or `/jre/`).
JAVA_HOME=/path/to/jdk-21/ ./mvnw clean install
Instead of using a locally installed Maven, call the Maven wrapper script `mvnw` in the main folder of the project.
This will use the Maven version which is supported by this project.
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First clone the Keycloak repository:
git clone https://github.com/keycloak/keycloak.git
cd keycloak
To build Keycloak run:
./mvnw clean install
This will build all modules and run the testsuite.
To build Keycloak with adapters run:
./mvnw clean install -Pdistribution
To build only the server run:
./mvnw -pl quarkus/deployment,quarkus/dist -am -DskipTests clean install
You can then find the ZIP distribution in `quarkus/dist/target` folder.
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**NOTE**
Classes from `org.keycloak.testsuite.*` packages aren't suitable to be used in production.
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This project contains opt-in support for incremental Maven builds using the [Apache Maven Build Cache Extension](https://github.com/apache/maven-build-cache-extension) which is disabled by default.
To enable it for a single Maven command execution, enable it as follows:
./mvnw -D -Dmaven.build.cache.enabled=true ...
To enable it by default, add it to the `MAVEN_OPTS` environment variable:
export MAVEN_OPTS="-Dmaven.build.cache.enabled=true"
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**NOTE**
To ensure that development in a branch does not break compatibility with existing releases, proto-schema-compatibility-maven-plugin checks may be run, which can cause builds to fail in proxy environments.
To avoid this, you can skip this check by adding the following property:
-DskipProtoLock=true
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### Starting Keycloak
To start Keycloak during development first build as specified above, then run:
java -jar quarkus/server/target/lib/quarkus-run.jar start-dev
To stop the server press `Ctrl + C`.
For more details, follow the [`quarkus` module documentation](../quarkus/README.md).
## Working with the codebase
We don't currently enforce a code style in Keycloak, but a good reference is the code style used by WildFly. This can be
retrieved from [Wildfly ide-configs](https://github.com/wildfly/wildfly-core/tree/main/ide-configs).To import formatting
rules, see following [instructions](http://community.jboss.org/wiki/ImportFormattingRules).
If your changes require updates to the database read [Updating Database Schema](updating-database-schema.md).
If your changes require introducing new dependencies or updating dependency versions please discuss this first on the
dev mailing list. We do not accept new dependencies to be added lightly, so try to use what is available.
### Building project from the IDE
Some parts of the project rely on generated code using Maven plugins. These steps might be skipped when building using
IDE resulting in compilation errors. To work around this make sure to build the project first using Maven. After the
initial build with Maven you should be able to build the project using the IDE as it will use the classes previously
generated by Maven plugins. Make sure you don't rebuild the whole project using the IDE as it would delete the generated
classes. E.g. in IntelliJ IDEA use `Build → Build Project` instead of `Build → Rebuild Project`.
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**NOTE**
If you are building the Operator from your IDE, make sure to build the project with the `operator` profile enabled in Maven
as it's excluded by default:
./mvnw clean install -Poperator -DskipTests
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