Re: [tcljava-dev] Re: tjc runtime compiler

[Mo D. <md...@un...>]

On Wed, 15 Feb 2006 09:59:30 -0800
Martti Tienhaara <ma...@da...> wrote:

> > From: Mo DeJong <md...@un...>
> 
> > A new runtime Tcl proc compiler API has been added to the CVS version of Jacl.
> > This runtime compiler will take a Tcl procedure as input and generate Java
> > byte code that will work the same way as the original Tcl proc. Previously,
> > the TJC compiler only worked as a separate ahead of time compiler.
> > 
> Great work.

Thanks for testing Martti

> I have come up with a few minor problems running on a Linux system. I 
> carried out the configure-make-install steps.
> 
> - jaclsh installed in /usr/local/bin requires the MINGW check to be 
> commented out. Also the JACL_CLASSPATH doesn't include the java compiler 
> janino.jar.
> 
> - jdk.cfg installed in /usr/local/bin uses ":" the linux path separator 
> but only works if you change it to use the Windows path separator ";". 
> Again janino.jar is missing.
>
> - running the hello world example doesn't work in jaclsh unless you 
> create a link to the janino.jar file in the current working directory
> even after adding it to all the CLASSPATH's. It is installed in 
> /usr/local/lib/tcljava1.3.2 by make install.

The attached patch should fix these issues. The janino.jar file should
not actually appear on the CLASSPATH as it is loaded via the TclClassLoader
off of the env(TCL_CLASSPATH). Trouble was, the code was not looking
in the right place. The attached patch should fix that too.

Mo DeJong