Hi to all, libfontmanager requires freetype. In SnowLeopard and Lion, Freetype is and since Mountain Lion Here's a patch for OpenJDK 7 and OSX to embed FreeType in build when ALT_FREETYPE_LIB_PATH is defined.
Patch will get libfreetype.dylib under ALT_FREETYPE_LIB_PATH and copy it in jre/lib and libfontmanager.dylib will reference it via @rpath. Sample output here : build/macosx-universal/j2sdk-bundle/jdk1.7.0.jdk/Contents/Home/jre/lib/libfontmanager.dylib: @rpath/libfontmanager.dylib (compatibility version 1.0.0, current version 1.0.0) @rpath/libfreetype.dylib (compatibility version 16.0.0, current version 16.0.0) @rpath/libawt.dylib (compatibility version 1.0.0, current version 1.0.0) /usr/lib/libSystem.B.dylib (compatibility version 1.0.0, current version 159.1.0) /usr/lib/libstdc++.6.dylib (compatibility version 7.0.0, current version 52.0.0) @rpath/libjava.dylib (compatibility version 1.0.0, current version 1.0.0) @rpath/libjvm.dylib (compatibility version 1.0.0, current version 1.0.0) I build FreeType 2.4.10 like this : ./configure --prefix=$DROP_DIR/freetype CC=/usr/bin/clang 'CFLAGS=-pipe -Os -arch i386 -arch x86_64' \ 'LDFLAGS=-arch i386 -arch x86_64' CXX=/usr/bin/clang++ 'CXXFLAGS=-pipe -Os -arch i386 -arch x86_64' \ --disable-static --with-old-mac-fonts cp $DROP_DIR/freetype/lib/libfreetype.6.dylib $DROP_DIR/freetype/lib/libfreetype.dylib install_name_tool -id @rpath/libfreetype.dylib $DROP_DIR/freetype/lib/libfreetype.dylib otool -L libfreetype.lib : build/macosx-universal/j2sdk-bundle/jdk1.7.0.jdk/Contents/Home/jre/lib/libfreetype.dylib: @rpath/libfreetype.dylib (compatibility version 16.0.0, current version 16.0.0) /usr/lib/libz.1.dylib (compatibility version 1.0.0, current version 1.2.5) /usr/lib/libbz2.1.0.dylib (compatibility version 1.0.0, current version 1.0.5) /System/Library/Frameworks/CoreServices.framework/Versions/A/CoreServices (compatibility version 1.0.0, current version 53.0.0) /System/Library/Frameworks/ApplicationServices.framework/Versions/A/ApplicationServices (compatibility version 1.0.0, current version 41.0.0) /usr/lib/libSystem.B.dylib (compatibility version 1.0.0, current version 159.1.0) /System/Library/Frameworks/CoreFoundation.framework/Versions/A/CoreFoundation (compatibility version 150.0.0, current version 635.21.0) Patch done against latest jdk7u. Thanks to review