[Javacad-develop] Building JCad

[Terry H. <ha...@an...>]

Hi!
I noticed an echoing silence on the archives and no traffic here, so I suppose
this list must not have much traffic yet?

I'm trying to evaluate JCad, and I have to admit I'm not very familiar with
Java builds, so that may be my problem.

I have a Debian Linux system with kaffe, jikes, and jikes-kaffe installed, 
which seem to be the best available Free JDK.  I have checked JCad
out of the CVS as recommended by your webpage.

I tried to run the "ant jcad-compile"  line, but I run into trouble with
it:

"""
init:

jcad-compile:
    [javac] Compiling 83 source files to /lorien/Narya/Source/JCAD/JCad

BUILD FAILED

/lorien/Narya/Source/JCAD/JCad/build.xml:34: Cannot use classic compiler, as 
it is not available A common solution is to set the environment variable 
JAVA_HOME to your jdk directory.

Total time: 31 seconds
"""

I'm not sure what my "jdk directory" is on a Debian system -- I don't think 
that the JAVA_HOME variable would actually help, but I'm not sure. With 
Debian configured for jikes/kaffe, BTW, "javac"  is a symlink to the 
"jikes-kaffe" binary. The class files appear to be in /usr/share/java/

Searching Google, I did find a reference to someone getting the error message 
above, to which there was a suggestion that a particular tag in the build.xml 
file be changed from "javac" to "jikes", like this:

<property name="build.compile" value="jikes" />

But there doesn't seem to be any line like this in the JCad build.xml
file,  so maybe it doesn't apply.

Any suggestions?  I *would* strongly like to use a Free Java compiler toc 
ompile it,  which is why I'm using jikes.  There's also a Gnu Java compiler, 
but Jikes seems to be preferred, from what little research I did on it.

Thanks,
Terry

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Terry Hancock ( hancock at anansispaceworks.com )
Anansi Spaceworks  http://www.anansispaceworks.com