[brailleblaster] Re: Howto Compile BrailleBlaster for Mac OS X on the Command Line

  • From: "John J. Boyer" <john.boyer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: brailleblaster@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Tue, 12 Jul 2011 17:00:21 -0500

I think you just need to get the SWT jar for the Mac and put it in 
brailleblaster/dist/lib I can't remember the URL offhand. It's too big 
to send as an attachment.

John

On Tue, Jul 12, 2011 at 02:22:05PM -0700, Alex Jurgensen wrote:
> Hi Crhis,
> 
> That fixed it.
> 
> However, running "Java jar BrailleBlaster.jar" gives the following:
> 
> Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: jar
> Caused by: java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: jar
>       at java.net.URLClassLoader$1.run(URLClassLoader.java:202)
>       at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
>       at java.net.URLClassLoader.findClass(URLClassLoader.java:190)
>       at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:306)
>       at sun.misc.Launcher$AppClassLoader.loadClass(Launcher.java:301)
>       at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:247)
> Alexs-iMac:dist AlexJ$ 
> 
> I'm not sure why this is occuring.
> 
> Regards,
> Alex,
> 
> 
> On 2011-07-12, at 8:44 AM, Chris von See wrote:
> 
> > Extracting the BrailleBlaster zip file using Springy gives "permission 
> > denied" errors on each item in the archive.  However, downloading the 
> > archive from "www.brailleblaster.org" and using the "sudo unzip 
> > brailleblaster-1.0.0.zip" command I was able to extract the archive, and 
> > upon doing so I noticed that the "brailleblaster" directory and all of its 
> > subdirectories and files have no permissions (that is, there are no 
> > user/group/world permission bits set).  Using "sudo chmod -R" with 
> > appropriate permissions fixed the problem.
> > 
> > I'm running Mac OS X Leopard.
> > 
> > 
> > Cheers
> > Chris
> > 
> > On Jul 12, 2011, at 7:33 AM, Cheryl Ann Homiak wrote:
> > 
> >> There is indeed a problem with the brailleblaster release on the Mac. When 
> >> I unzipped it in terminal using the zip command, it unzipped but crashed 
> >> terminal. I could then only remove the resulting brailleblaster directory 
> >> by using the sudo command. When I tried going into finder and using 
> >> Unarchiver, I heard "Unarchiver" but never found an open unarchiver window 
> >> and the brailleblaster zip file seems to now have disappeared from the 
> >> directory I had it in and no brailleblaster directory was completed. I am 
> >> using an Intel Mac mini running Snow Leopard and am not generally having 
> >> problems unpacking zip files either with unzip or Unarchiver. Not only do 
> >> I have the basic Unix system that comes with the Mac, but I also have 
> >> Macports and fink installed. To have a compiling problem is one thing but 
> >> there really shouldn't be a problem with just unzipping a zip file.
> >> 
> >> 
> >> 
> >> 
> >> 
> >> 
> >> -- 
> >> Cheryl
> >> 
> >> "Let the words of my mouth,
> >> and the meditation of my heart,
> >> be acceptable in thy sight,
> >> O LORD, my strength and my Redeemer."
> >> 
> >> (Psalm 19:14: Bible KJV)
> >> 
> > 
> > 
> 

-- 
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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