Thanks for looking into this; I will try updating Eclipse and rebuilding tonight.
I have also been working on building it using Ant within Eclipse; I will post a question in the next day or two about my current problem with that. ‹ David M. Gauntt, Ph.D. Associate Professor, Department of Radiology UAB Medical Center On 4/25/19, 7:58 AM, "Dominik Stadler" <[email protected]> wrote: >Hi David, > >Sorry that it took you some time to make it work, we try to make it easy, >but as things are constantly > >Sounds like a limitation of Eclipse, I just tried with Eclipse 4.7.x and >saw the same error with latest trunk, it seems not many people working on >POI are using Eclipse nowadays. > >I then tried with latest Eclipse 2019.03, there most of the compilation >errors are gone, 4 are remaining for casts that seem to be too complex for >Eclipse but are working with Oracle/OpenJDK/IBMJDK, we should probably >work >around those so we support at least the current version of Eclipse, even >if >it has limitations in its implementation of Java compilation. > >I performed a few smaller changes that should make it work on Eclipse >2019.03 again, so if you can switch Eclipse and update to latest trunk, >you >should be able to compile. > >Thanks... Dominik. > > >On Thu, Apr 25, 2019 at 3:04 AM Gauntt, David <[email protected]> >wrote: > >> I am getting close to my first successful build of the POI project, and >> have run into a couple of compiler errors that seem to be blocking me. >>The >> first of these is >> >> >> Cannot reference a field before it is defined >> >> >> This is caused 100 times in RecordTypes. java. How is it that other >> people are getting this project to compile properly but not me? I am >> building in Eclipse ver 2018-09 under Windows 10, using Java SE 1.8. >>The >> project is a copy of tag REL_4_1_0 from the Git mirror of POI. >> >> >> The following code illustrates this error. Ironically, while the error >> message says that I am trying to reference a field, the error seems to >>be >> caused by a method reference (UnknownRecordPlaceholder::new). >> >> >> public final class SSCCE { >> >> static class UnknownRecordPlaceholder { >> } >> >> enum RecordTypes { >> // Error caused by next line >> UnknownRecordPlaceholder(UnknownRecordPlaceholder::new); >> >> @FunctionalInterface >> public interface RecordConstructor { >> void test(); >> } >> >> public final RecordConstructor recordConstructor; >> >> RecordTypes(RecordConstructor recordConstructor) { >> this.recordConstructor = recordConstructor; >> } >> } >> >> } >> >> >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
