[brailleblaster] Re: ant
- From: "John J. Boyer" <john.boyer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: brailleblaster@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 22 Jul 2011 13:18:57 -0500
I use the Ant in Cygwin because it's convenient. Don't try running
cygwin commands from the windows command line. It won't work. You should
have a shortcut to Cygwin on your desktop. If not, press the Windows
key, type cygwin and press enter. This should open Cygwijn's own commans
line.
As Chris says, ant will run anywhere, but including all the jars in your
cloasspath would be a pain.
I'm doing some checkijng. There may be an easy way to build
BrailleBlaster onn Windows, with all the latest updates.
John
On Fri, Jul 22, 2011 at 09:25:12AM -0500, qubit wrote:
> So you say I should build bb in cygwin but not the lib dlls?
> Perhaps you could list major steps in a file, indicating what to build at
> the ssh prompt and what to build in dos.
> It sounds like there's a contradiction somewhere.
> For one thing, I try running any cygwin command from windows and it crashes
> miserably. Those are the .exe files. Presumably that is because it can't
> find whatever dlls are loaded by the executable.
> But building the pure java would be the same wherever it was built.
> However, because of the native code in the dlls, the dlls and everything in
> them have to be built in windows...right?
> So do you have a makefile or ant spec for building the louis libs in dos?
> Does that work?
> I'm picking through JFace at the moment but I do want to build bb
> eventually.
> TIA
> --le
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> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "John J. Boyer" <john.boyer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: <brailleblaster@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Friday, July 22, 2011 8:45 AM
> Subject: [brailleblaster] Re: ant
>
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> Laura,
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> Use ant at the Cygwin command line. It works fine. That is how I bu9ild
> BrailleBlaster on Windows. Don't ever use Cygwin to build liblouis.dll
> or liblouisutdml.dll Use the build files in the windows subdirectories
> of the repositories. The buuild files for liblouisutdml.dll are still a
> work in progress. if anyone wnts to take a look at them and suggest
> improvements the assistance will be welcome.
>
> John
>
> On Fri, Jul 22, 2011 at 07:58:18AM -0500, qubit wrote:
> > John, I thought you said you weren't using cygwin to build brailleblaster,
> > except for the liblouis* libs.
> > Does this mean that ant in cygwin will run outside cygwin on windows?
> > Just getting oriented. TIA
> > --le
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "John J. Boyer" <john.boyer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > To: <brailleblaster@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > Sent: Friday, July 22, 2011 12:06 AM
> > Subject: [brailleblaster] Re: ant
> >
> >
> > Laura,
> >
> > Check your Cygwin. It may already have ant. If not, you can add it with
> > the setup program.
> >
> > My Cygwin has Subversion Mercurial, and just about every other
> > programming tool. The Cygwin command line is much nicer than the Window
> > cmd.
> >
> > John
> >
> > On Thu, Jul 21, 2011 at 10:16:44PM -0500, qubit wrote:
> > > Kind of ominous having a program named after a bug...
> > >
> > > I have 2 questions about installing ant on windows:
> > > There appears to be only one version of ant for windows, and presumably
> > > it
> > > is for 32 bit, as it talks about building on xp and before. Will this
> > > version also build on 64 bit?
> > >
> > > Q2: I can't find directions on installing the binaries.
> > > There is a file called "INSTALL that appears to be a binary a but I want
> > > some indication how to use it.
> > >
> > > Ok, I'll add a 3rd question: the verbage on the website )which I didn't
> > > look
> > > at closely) talked about digital signatures. Does that mean I have to
> > > decrypt, or is that just to test the binaries against the key to be sure
> > > it
> > > is official?
> > >
> > > Thanx for any info.
> > > --le
> > >
> >
> > --
> > John J. Boyer; President, Chief Software Developer
> > Abilitiessoft, Inc.
> > http://www.abilitiessoft.com
> > Madison, Wisconsin USA
> > Developing software for people with disabilities
> >
> >
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> John J. Boyer; President, Chief Software Developer
> Abilitiessoft, Inc.
> http://www.abilitiessoft.com
> Madison, Wisconsin USA
> Developing software for people with disabilities
>
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John J. Boyer; President, Chief Software Developer
Abilitiessoft, Inc.
http://www.abilitiessoft.com
Madison, Wisconsin USA
Developing software for people with disabilities
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