[tcljava-user] Jacl Setup: Help requested.

[Richard S. <arc...@gm...>]

Hello,

I have spent the last week or so trying to install, and use Jacl on a
Windows XP system. When I installed the latest 'binary release' I was able
to run the jaclsh.bat file but my java program would not compile as it was
not able to find the tcl.lang.* package. (I first tried using the code on
the Get Started page but to no avail)

Only after compiling the source files and then copying the tcl folder to the
same location as my test file was I able to compile a small program that
imports the tcl.lang package and creates a Interp instance - printing an
'OK' message one it's done that. When I run the program however it returns
the error...

Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError:
tcl/lang/TclRuntimeError at testImport.main(testImport.java:7).

I couldn't find the class mentioned in the source release so googled the
error and file name and found a TclRuntimeException.java file here:
http://www.koders.com/java/fidBA376262E5B86423A1B6795FAF916127813F7342.aspx

However after compiling and integrating this the error changed to saying
that the TclException class was missing... as well as TclInteger among
others.

Are these known problems? Is there a fix? Why are these files missing in the
first place?

What I would really appreciate is someone guiding me through the
installation, setup and use of Jacl on a Windows XP system if that is at all
possble. Please? :)

Background:
I am a  Third year Computer Science & A.I. student at the University of
Sheffield, UK.. For my dissertation I am creating an API that will allow
users to create Java based interfaces and interact with a tcl-based program
that maps audio input to a 2d x,y positions on a screen using an Artifcial
Neural Network. Jacl seems the most obvious tool for helping me acheive
this.

Any help much appreciateed,

Richard Shaw