Recent changes to Building_from_source

Building_from_source modified by Aaron Wolfe

Aaron Wolfe — Fri, 20 Jun 2014 18:50:31 -0000

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+Revised information coming soon, apologies to anyone who attempted to use the old instructions recently, they were not correct and I'd forgotten they were still online here. 
+
 ## Notes

 You still need to have the correct RXTX library file for your platform. You also must have the .properties configuration files in the same folder as your single DirveWire.jar file. 
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 The jar file is platform independent, so once it is built you can copy to windows, linux, mac os etc without rebuilding and run it. Requirements: 

 Java version 1.5 or later Apache Ant configured for your platform 
-
-GWT version 2.0.1 downloaded and extracted to a local folder on your computer

Building_from_source modified by Aaron Wolfe

Aaron Wolfe — Fri, 20 Jun 2014 18:50:31 -0000

--- v7
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-## Building from a command prompt
-    
-      1. Download and extract GWT to a local folder as described in the building with Eclipse section.
-      2. Set your environment variable GWT_HOME to the location of where you extracted GWT in step 2.  The path should point to the folder where you will find the file gwt-dev.jar
-      3. Change into the project folder where the build.xml file is located.
-      4. Run the Apache ant command ‘ant’ to run the default build option.
-      5. The project will compile and generate a single jar file that can be run (see information above).
-    
-
 ## Notes

 You still need to have the correct RXTX library file for your platform. You also must have the .properties configuration files in the same folder as your single DirveWire.jar file.

Building_from_source modified by Aaron Wolfe

Aaron Wolfe — Fri, 20 Jun 2014 18:50:31 -0000

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-## How to compile Project with Eclipse
-    
-      1. Import project from CVS
-      2. Download the latest version of GWT at http://code.google.com/webtoolkit/download.html and extract to a local folder.
-      3. Set your environment variable GWT_HOME to the location of where you extracted GWT in step 2.  The path should point to the folder where you will find the file gwt-dev.jar
-      4. Select the option ‘2 Ant Build…’ from by right clicking on the build.xml file and selecting ‘Run As’ 
-         Your browser may not support display of this image.
-      5. From the ‘Targets’ tab select the ‘create_run_jar’ file at the bottom of the list.  You will probably want to uncheck the ‘build[default]’ option also. 
-         Your browser may not support display of this image.
-      6. Select ‘Apply’ and then ‘Run’ to generate the DriveWire.jar file 
-          
-         This ant task will: 
-         1. Build the java classes 
-         2. Build the GWT java classes  
-         3. Package the required jar files, java compiled code, and the GWT compiled code into a single jar file.
-    
-
 ## Building from a command prompt

       1. Download and extract GWT to a local folder as described in the building with Eclipse section.

Building_from_source modified by Aaron Wolfe

Aaron Wolfe — Fri, 20 Jun 2014 18:50:31 -0000

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-[TOC]
-
-## How to compile DriveWire GWT version
-
-### Two options
-    
-      1. Using Eclipse
-      2. From command prompt using Apache Ant
-    
-
 ## How to compile Project with Eclipse

       1. Import project from CVS

Building_from_source modified by Jim Hathaway

Jim Hathaway — Fri, 20 Jun 2014 18:50:31 -0000

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+++ v5
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 Java version 1.5 or later Apache Ant configured for your platform 

-GWT version 2.0 downloaded and extracted to a local folder on your computer 
+GWT version 2.0.1 downloaded and extracted to a local folder on your computer

Building_from_source modified by Jim Hathaway

Jim Hathaway — Fri, 20 Jun 2014 18:50:31 -0000

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 ## Building from a command prompt

-      1. You must modify the build.xml file and change line 4, see step 2 above
-      2. Change into the project folder where the build.xml file is located
-      3. Run the Apache ant command ‘ant create_run_jar’
-      4. The project will compile and generate a single jar file that can be run (see information above).
+      1. Download and extract GWT to a local folder as described in the building with Eclipse section.
+      2. Set your environment variable GWT_HOME to the location of where you extracted GWT in step 2.  The path should point to the folder where you will find the file gwt-dev.jar
+      3. Change into the project folder where the build.xml file is located.
+      4. Run the Apache ant command ‘ant’ to run the default build option.
+      5. The project will compile and generate a single jar file that can be run (see information above).

 ## Notes

Building_from_source modified by Jim Hathaway

Jim Hathaway — Fri, 20 Jun 2014 18:50:31 -0000

--- v2
+++ v3
@@ -13,11 +13,11 @@
       1. Import project from CVS
       2. Download the latest version of GWT at http://code.google.com/webtoolkit/download.html and extract to a local folder.
       3. Set your environment variable GWT_HOME to the location of where you extracted GWT in step 2.  The path should point to the folder where you will find the file gwt-dev.jar
-      3. Select the option ‘2 Ant Build…’ from by right clicking on the build.xml file and selecting ‘Run As’ 
+      4. Select the option ‘2 Ant Build…’ from by right clicking on the build.xml file and selecting ‘Run As’ 
          Your browser may not support display of this image.
-      4. From the ‘Targets’ tab select the ‘create_run_jar’ file at the bottom of the list.  You will probably want to uncheck the ‘build[default]’ option also. 
+      5. From the ‘Targets’ tab select the ‘create_run_jar’ file at the bottom of the list.  You will probably want to uncheck the ‘build[default]’ option also. 
          Your browser may not support display of this image.
-      5. Select ‘Apply’ and then ‘Run’ to generate the DriveWire.jar file 
+      6. Select ‘Apply’ and then ‘Run’ to generate the DriveWire.jar file

          This ant task will: 
          1. Build the java classes

Building_from_source modified by Jim Hathaway

Jim Hathaway — Fri, 20 Jun 2014 18:50:31 -0000

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+++ v2
@@ -1,3 +1,5 @@
+[TOC]
+
 ## How to compile DriveWire GWT version

 ### Two options
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 ## How to compile Project with Eclipse

       1. Import project from CVS
-      2. Modify the 4th line of the build.xml file and setup the path to the folder where you downloaded GWT.   The property name is gwt.sdk and the location needs to be modified to the path where your GWT is located.  
+      2. Download the latest version of GWT at http://code.google.com/webtoolkit/download.html and extract to a local folder.
+      3. Set your environment variable GWT_HOME to the location of where you extracted GWT in step 2.  The path should point to the folder where you will find the file gwt-dev.jar
+      3. Select the option ‘2 Ant Build…’ from by right clicking on the build.xml file and selecting ‘Run As’ 
+         Your browser may not support display of this image.
+      4. From the ‘Targets’ tab select the ‘create_run_jar’ file at the bottom of the list.  You will probably want to uncheck the ‘build[default]’ option also. 
+         Your browser may not support display of this image.
+      5. Select ‘Apply’ and then ‘Run’ to generate the DriveWire.jar file 
+          
+         This ant task will: 
+         1. Build the java classes 
+         2. Build the GWT java classes  
+         3. Package the required jar files, java compiled code, and the GWT compiled code into a single jar file.

+
+## Building from a command prompt
+    
+      1. You must modify the build.xml file and change line 4, see step 2 above
+      2. Change into the project folder where the build.xml file is located
+      3. Run the Apache ant command ‘ant create_run_jar’
+      4. The project will compile and generate a single jar file that can be run (see information above).
+    
+
+## Notes
+
+You still need to have the correct RXTX library file for your platform. You also must have the .properties configuration files in the same folder as your single DirveWire.jar file. 
+
+You should be able to launch the drivewire server with the normal ‘java –jar DriveWire.jar’ command on any platform. 
+
+The jar file is platform independent, so once it is built you can copy to windows, linux, mac os etc without rebuilding and run it. Requirements: 
+
+Java version 1.5 or later Apache Ant configured for your platform 
+
+GWT version 2.0 downloaded and extracted to a local folder on your computer

Building_from_source modified by Aaron Wolfe

Aaron Wolfe — Fri, 20 Jun 2014 18:50:30 -0000

How to compile DriveWire GWT version

Two options

  1. Using Eclipse
  2. From command prompt using Apache Ant

How to compile Project with Eclipse

  1. Import project from CVS
  2. Modify the 4th line of the build.xml file and setup the path to the folder where you downloaded GWT.   The property name is gwt.sdk and the location needs to be modified to the path where your GWT is located.