Cool. Thanks for the pointer to clojure.lang.Compile and the reminder about failonerror - I'll update it as soon as I can.
I'll also look into coming up with a clearer explanation of the app variable. Thanks! -Rich On Sat, Apr 11, 2009 at 3:55 PM, John D. Hume <duelin.mark...@gmail.com>wrote: > > On Sat, Apr 11, 2009 at 3:49 PM, Richard Lyman <richard.ly...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > http://www.lithinos.com/Compiling-Clojure-applications-using-Ant.html > > > > What do you guys think? > > > > -Rich > > It's a bit simpler to use clojure.lang.Compile as a main class. > Here's the relevant bit from one of my build.xmls: > > <target name="compile" depends="clean,init"> > <java classname="clojure.lang.Compile" > classpathref="project.classpath" > fork="true" > failonerror="true"> > <classpath path="${src.dir}" /> > <sysproperty key="clojure.compile.path" value="${classes.dir}" /> > <arg value="clj-record.boot" /> > </java> > </target> > > > http://github.com/duelinmarkers/clj-record/blob/c8235e7d854c0049a785d7773665cb6c62efb024/build.xml#L30 > > I strongly recommend failonerror="true" so that your build will abort > if compilation fails. (If you stick with the clojure.main -e > "(compile..." approach I think you'll find clojure.main doesn't exit > with an error code, so it won't work. There's another recent thread > about that and I'm planning to open an issue and submit a patch for it > when I have a chance. clojure.lang.Compile does exit with an error > when compilation fails, so the above will fail a build appropriately.) > > Also, I'd recommend being clearer in describing the "app" variable. It > will need to be a Clojure namespace that when loaded will (one way or > another) load in all of your Clojure code. If someone is building a > library, it's relatively likely there is no such namespace. > > -hume. > -- > http://elhumidor.blogspot.com/ > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Clojure" group. To post to this group, send email to clojure@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/clojure?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
