On Feb 15, 2005, at 6:05 PM, Brendon Costa wrote:
Hi,
I am having problems compiling the log4cxx latest release (0.9.7) in either MSYS or NetBSD. I noticed that there were a few posts before about compiling on a BSD system, and someone made a patch to do so. Has this patch been merged into a 0.9.7 release? If so, is there any chance of releasing the tarball that includes it? As for the MSYS problem, well i just thought i would post this message and see if there are any solutions out there for getting this to work.
Thanks, Brendon.
At the present, we are trying to get the CVS HEAD to the point that we can retire 0.9.7. If you have any choice in the matter, I would strongly recommend using the CVS HEAD since you would be able to contribute to the rest of the community as we try to get the CVS HEAD ready for an 0.9.8 release. The current CVS has substantial modifications so experiences with 0.9.7 are not much help.
The autoconf-based build is broken for Debian and BSD systems. There has been discussions on the list but nobody has stepped up to volunteer to revamp it and I'm a novice with regard to it. I've logged a bug (http://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LOGCXX-43) on this and added this as a blocker for the 0.9.8 release. It will have to be done before an 0.9.8 release, but if I'm not going to take it on until I've run out of other tasks that need attention and then I would likely beg one another group for help.
The Ant based build does work with Visual C++, Borland C++ on Windows and with gcc on Linux and Mac OS/X. I've attempted to set up FreeBSD on Virtual PC to test the Ant build on that platform, but haven't seen it through to completion.
The Ant build requires Ant 1. 6.1 or later and the CVS HEAD versions of ant-contrib and cpptasks (http://ant-contrib.sourceforge.net) and a Java VM. If you have a network connection, the initial ant build will download Apache Portable Runtime modules from an mirror and place it in the lib directory or you can also manually place apr-1.1.0.tar.gz, apr-util-1.1.0.tar.gz and apr-iconv-1.0.1.tar.gz in that directory or specify the location of installed versions.
I have MinGW as the next Windows compiler to get working with the Ant build. I haven't tested it yet.
