[tcljava-dev] Building latest jacl from CVS

[Neil M. <NM...@uk...>]

I'm having quite a bit of trouble building jacl from CVS. I'm trying to
build under cygwin, but the configure script refused to work, because it
wants autoconf to be run, and I didn't have version 2.14 (which it asks
for). I got the latest CVS autoconf (as the latest release seems to be
2.13), but that steadfastly refuses to build, either. Trying to compile
jacl manually using javac results in a whole heap of errors. Anyone have a
build, or can provide me with details of how to compile this properly.

Also, I have put up a version of jacl (1.2.6) with sockets support, at
http://tallniel.port5.com/cgi-bin/index.cgi/JaclSockets.html
You can get a jar file (containing jacl, tcljava, and the new sockets class
files and source) at http://tallniel.port5.com/jacl-sockets.jar

The new files needed for sockets are:

SocketCmd.java   - actually implemented.
SocketChannel.java - client side, extends Channel
ServerSocketChannel.java - server side, extends Channel
SocketConnectionEvent.java - event added to event queue when a client
connects to a server socket, extends TclEvent.

It seems to work ok for me, albeit somewhat limited (see my previous post).
One other question - someone had written some comments in the
SocketCmd.java file about setting up server sockets. I didn't fully
understand what was being said. I think the gist of it was to somehow get
the interpreter to inform us when it was being deleted so that socket
events wouldn't try and execute callbacks in an invalid interpreter. I
didn't know how to do this, but socket events deal with the interpreter
being an invalid reference anyway.

Any comments, code improvements (I'm sure there are many), gratefully
received.

Neil.
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