On Sun, Oct 26, 2025 at 4:54 AM Rony G. Flatscher <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi Michael, > > On 26.10.2025 02:43, Michael Lueck wrote: > > Rony G. Flatscher wrote: > >> > >> On 25.10.2025 17:51, Michael Lueck wrote: > >>> > >>> At least the XALAN package has been available to install on Xubuntu > (Ubuntu) systems for quite > >>> some time. I was thinking, from that context, to merely list it as a > dependency to have > >>> installed and available to perform builds of ooRexx. Possibly I am > missing some obstacle, or > >>> possibly is having XALAN packaged by the distro not common on other > distros? > >> > >> Well that is rather easy on Linux distributions, but not so on Windows. > In my case I was not able > >> to find a Windows xalan.exe to download and run despite quite a few > queries and looking up the > >> served links, unfortunately. > > > > > > Then did I misunderstand the ooRexx build requirement? I thought it was > that the XALAN step needed > > to be run on Windows. > > Well, the CMakeLists.txt file looks for a xalan executable, hence it may > be the case that it would > run on a Linux machine that has a xalan executable. You could try that > out, just touch > "trunk/interpreter/messages/rexxmsg.xml", then rebuild ooRexx. > > > > > Building software is sooooo complicated!!!! I must be dumb.... I just > expect the ooRexx > > interpreter to be installed and available, and to start writing ooRexx > code! :-D > That is the purpose of the installation packages which are available for > all major operating systems > and quite many Unix variants. > > Anyway, I still think I understood the ooRexx build process to be to run > the XALAN step on a > > Windows ooRexx developer machine. Since XALAN binary packages exist at > least for Ubuntu, would > > that mean this step could be made cross-platform and not dependent on > Windows? > > Most developers work and build on Windows, hence making sure that at least > on Windows all programs > are available, in this case xalan.exe. Originally it was available, but > somehow it got moved, > deleted and was not available when I had a need for it. > > Rick found out that it was gone and (re-)uploaded it to the Sourceforge > file section at < > > https://sourceforge.net/projects/oorexx/files/oorexx-buildutils/Windows/1.2.0/>. > That is also the > location for nsis package used for creating the ooRexx installation > package for Windows. > > --- > > Having said this I was just curious whether an installed version of Java > could be used for XSLT, > hence my ooRexx script using BSF4ooRexx850. It would be in theory possible > to check whether Java and > BSF4ooRexx850 was available to CMake and if so use an ooRexx script like > the one I posted. This > solution would be platform independent, but would demand that also some > other ooRexx interpreter was > available and that is just too much of prerequisites, making everything > complicated, so it is not > worth it. > The whole reason those files are generated using xalan is because the original code received from IBM actually used a rexx script to generate the error message files. So you needed a working rexx interpreter in order to build oorexx, which made it a bit tricky porting the code to a new platform. It also complicated the build, because those files are generally created as the first step of the build when it is necessary to do so, which resulted in rxapi.exe getting launched. Things worked much more smoothly once the rexx dependency was removed from the build process. If the lack of a cross platform solution to this bothers anybody, then they are invited to put the time in to fix that. Rick > > HTH > > ---rony > > > > > > Rony G. Flatscher wrote: > >> > >> Speaking of the OS/2 days: there was one international Rexx symposium > in the US, where Chip > >> challenged the attendees to come up with a Magic 8 ball program in > their favorite Rexx. > > > > > > I suspect I was there for that RexxLA Symposium. I recall meeting John, > and another of the authors > > of the spiral bound book about ORexx. I had the unfortunate turn of > events to have to leave my > > copy behind when resigning from Consumers Energy. I praised the book > online, and ended up being > > gifted with my own copy by a coauthor to John. > > > > Object REXX by Example - EDM2 > > Object REXX by Example Authors: Gwen L. Venesky, Will Trosky, John J. > Urbaniak Publisher: Aviar > > 1996 ISBN 0-9652329-0-5 > > > > Then likely Gwen was also at that RexxLA, and was the gifter of my > personal copy of the book. From > > my notes: > > > > 2001 - 2002 Rexx Language Association (RexxLA) Symposium > > > > Those were the only RexxLA Symposiums I have made it to so far. > > > > Dave Plummer uses the Prime Sieve as his task to port to test platforms > and languages. My port > > challenge is to develop the Fifteen Puzzle in development tools. Here > (attached) is progress > > porting from MS Access VBA code to VisPro Rexx on OS/2 last Summer > according to the filename. This > > has a good mix of simple UI and algorithm use of the target tool. It is > my one and only game I > > developed.... back in 1998 headed by Amtrak to WarpStock Chicago, which > was at the same time as > > COMDEX Chicago. My newly married wife and myself attended the > conferences. She was board with all > > of the "tools" on my laptop, so I whipped up the Fifteen Puzzle in > Paradox for Windows ObjectPAL > > language while in route, and she played it to pass the time. The Access > VBA port was the second... > > > > Rem /* 2022/10/14 MDL Initial Creation, completed port from > Object PAL on Paradox*/ > > > > and VisPro Rexx was third. I coded that port commenting /* API to .... > */ so that will make it > > hopefully a breeze to port to VX-Rexx. Just search for all of the "API > to" LOCs, and swap out for > > the appropriate VX-Rexx call. > > > > If you do the math, then that is 24 years gap between the first game I > developed, and porting that > > game to the next tool / language. As a script in a famous David Barnes > OS/2 ad closed.... > > > > "With all I am actually doing, I do not have time for games." > > > > "OS/2 Ad #2" > > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_8SPhq-OJ1E > > > > David sums me up well in that. > > > > I am thankful, > > > _______________________________________________ > Oorexx-devel mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/oorexx-devel >
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