Install GraalVM with Homebrew
Homebrew is the preferred way to install anything on your Mac.
brew install graalvm/tap/graalvm-ce-java17
Install GraalVM without Homebrew
Follow these 5 steps to get GraalVM installed on your Mac.
Step1:
Download the official binary: https://www.graalvm.org/downloads/
Unpack the archive into a folder.
Step2:
Move the folder into the JavaVirtualMachines directory:
sudo mv graalvm-ce-java17-21.3.0 /Library/Java/JavaVirtualMachines
sudo is required because /Library is a system directory.
Step3:
Verify the installation using the java_home utility:
/usr/libexec/java_home -V
This now needs to be added to the PATH, but first let’s make sure we can reference the new location:
/usr/libexec/java_home -v 1.17
..should print out the newly created entry’s absolute directory path as above:
/Library/Java/JavaVirtualMachines/graalvm-ce-java17-21.3.0/Contents/Home
Open you ~/.bash_profile and add:
export JAVA_HOME=$(/usr/libexec/java_home -v 1.17)
export PATH=$JAVA_HOME/bin:$PATH
Step4:
Now to complete the installation, simply run the following:
gu install native-image
This binary is located at /Library/Java/JavaVirtualMachines/graalvm-ce-<version>/Contents/Home/bin if it’s not immediately available.
Step5:
native-image will now be added to the path.
