Nico, Thanks for having a look at the win32 ant-launcher. I appreciate the changes you have made to make it work with java 1.4
> I had the following problems with it: > - I didn't know how to compile it (found out that you can compile it with > for example > "bcc32 -WC -ID:\jdk13\include -ID:\jdk13\include\win32 *.cpp") My fault. I use IDE's to handle all of that for me. Makefile's are inconsistent and tedious for my tastes, except for ANT (hence my interest in it). > - The source looked ugly to me (I reformatted it a little bit) I am the only person in the world who formats C++ code in that particular way (lining up left and right curly braces) > - It didn't work with JDK 1.4 (there is no classic-vm in JDK 1.4) (*1) Looks like you fixed this. > - It didn't worked for me without passing any argument (it passed "null" to > main() instead of an empty array) I guess it should probably spit out a usage message. > Some problems remain: > - Doesn't work with JDK 1.1 (Don't know how to start a VM?) The invocation API is entirely different with 1.1 JVMs. Is it worth supporting 1.1 JVM's? > - You can't pass any arguments to the VM (to specify memory sizes) How do we differentiate between arguments meant for the VM and arguments meant for ANT? > Michael: you are ready to donate this source to the ASF and we can add the > ASF-Copyright header to it? Sure! As long as my name stays on as the original author. > Others: Do you think it would be useful to add this (as ant.exe) to the Ant > Distribution, so we can avoid future problems with ant.bat? I think so.
