Ha ha. You can't win the Java game in "hard mode" without dealing with the classloader bosses. ;)
On Aug 16, 2016 7:43 AM, "Antoine Toulme" <anto...@toulme.name> wrote: > It took a while to get it right. > > -I needed a Java wrapper class to call out to the Main object on the > compiler. I took after Specs2Runner. > -Even then, zinc kept failing missing scala.reflect packages. This was > very weird since the classpath definitely contained those classes. > I eventually found out that zinc plays with the classloader and takes > several arguments: -scala-library, -scala-compiler, and a new one, > -scala-extra. (https://github.com/typesafehub/zinc <https://github.com/ > typesafehub/zinc> gave it away). > Adding -scala-extra, pointing at the scala-reflect jar fixed the issue. > > Cheers, > > Antoine > > > On Aug 16, 2016, at 7:20 AM, Alex Boisvert <alex.boisv...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > > > Nice, thanks for bringing zinc back. > > > > On Mon, Aug 15, 2016 at 11:38 PM, Antoine Toulme <anto...@toulme.name> > > wrote: > > > >> Just brought zinc back in. Had to do a little dancing around with a Java > >> class to call out to the Scala main object. > >> > >> Here is the commit: > >> > >> [master 749acfe] Bring back zinc compiler, using the latest version and > a > >> runner class > >> 5 files changed, 183 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) > >> create mode 100644 lib/buildr/scala/org/apache/buildr/ZincRunner.class > >> create mode 100644 lib/buildr/scala/org/apache/buildr/ZincRunner.java > >> > >>> On Aug 15, 2016, at 4:49 PM, Antoine Toulme <anto...@toulme.name> > wrote: > >>> > >>> On Aug 15, 2016, at 3:47 PM, Alex Boisvert <alex.boisv...@gmail.com> > >> wrote: > >>>> > >>>> On Mon, Aug 15, 2016 at 3:24 PM, Antoine Toulme <anto...@toulme.name> > >> wrote: > >>>> > >>>>> Two things had to go to make it happen: > >>>>> -the Zinc compiler’s last release was 6 years ago, and it doesn’t > seem > >> to > >>>>> play well with the latest. I have removed it. > >>>>> > >>>> > >>>> Zinc's last release was about a month ago (July 3rd); I think you > might > >>>> have been looking at older artifacts / older organization in maven2 > >> repo? > >>>> > >>>> https://github.com/typesafehub/zinc > >>>> > >>>> No biggie, just mentioning it. > >>> > >>> OK, I missed it: > >>> http://central.maven.org/maven2/com/typesafe/zinc/zinc/0.3.12/ < > >> http://central.maven.org/maven2/com/typesafe/zinc/zinc/0.3.12/> > >>> > >>> OK, let me try to bring this back in. > >>> > >>> I looked at this new Zinc incarnation from SBT and found that it has a > >> first 1.0.0-X1 build out there: > >>> http://mvnrepository.com/artifact/org.scala-sbt/zinc_2.11 < > >> http://mvnrepository.com/artifact/org.scala-sbt/zinc_2.11> > >>> > >>> Here is the code: > >>> https://github.com/sbt/zinc <https://github.com/sbt/zinc> > >>> > >>> I tried to use it but could not find the main class like the old one. > >> > >> > >