Hi Paco, Thanks again for your help. Yea, it assumes Gant will be installed in the lib directory with the rest of the Groovy jars since that's how it's installed by the Windows installer. If you drop the jar in there, it should work.
I'm mostly liking these so far. The only thing I might be able to improve on is that all the jars in lib are included in the classpath currently, whereas the C binaries I think were more explicit in some cases (gant I think being one of them). I want to think through some more whether there's any issues there. -Keegan On Mon, Oct 10, 2016 at 5:57 PM, Paco Zarate <conta...@nazcasistemas.com> wrote: > Keegan, > The new .exe files look really good, I will keep using them. Even with a > record in the PATH that includes an & (in a non-groovy related folder) it > is working fine. > > The only error was: > paco@DEVELOPER2 C:\Users\paco > > gant > Error: Could not find or load main class gant.Gant > > paco@DEVELOPER2 C:\Users\paco > > gant.exe > Error: Could not find or load main class gant.Gant > > paco@DEVELOPER2 C:\Users\paco > > gant.exe -v > Error: Could not find or load main class gant.Gant > > But i think i am missing the gant install, i will read more about how to > install gant correctly later today and let you know. > > Paco. > > On Mon, Sep 26, 2016 at 12:18 PM, Keegan Witt <keeganw...@gmail.com> > wrote: > >> I started experimenting with launch4j, and have put that experiment in >> this repo: https://github.com/keeganwitt/groovy-launch4j. I've uploaded >> binaries into same place I previous linked. The first binaries I uploaded >> are in batWrapper.zip, and the new launch4j based binaries are in >> launch4j.zip if anyone wants to try them out. At the moment, I only have >> binaries that call Java (i.e. not bundled with Java). >> >> -Keegan >> >> On Fri, Sep 9, 2016 at 10:43 PM, Keegan Witt <keeganw...@gmail.com> >> wrote: >> >>> Hmm, maybe the bat files aren't as robust as I assumed and I should >>> rethink the approach. >>> >>> If we went the GCJ route, we'd still have to implement our own logic to >>> locate Java binaries (similar to how C code does today), right? That'd be >>> an option, though I'm a little hesitant to start relying on something that >>> looks like hasn't been updated in in several years and only supports Java >>> 1.4 and some of Java 5. >>> Another option would be Launch4J, which is what I was originally >>> considering. If we did that, we could even create 2 sets of binaries -- 1 >>> with a bundled JRE, and 1 without. What kinda drew me to that approach was >>> that it already had its own logic for locating Java. I'll do some reading >>> on both options. >>> >>> -Keegan >>> >>> On Thu, Sep 8, 2016 at 8:27 AM, Jochen Theodorou <blackd...@gmx.org> >>> wrote: >>> >>>> Maybe a stupid question... but couldn't we write an exe in Java and >>>> compile using gcj. The exe would spawn a new "normal" JVM and do the >>>> argument handling. Unlike the C variant there would be more people able to >>>> handle this. >>>> >>>> bye Jochen >>>> >>>> On 08.09.2016 11:13, Paul King wrote: >>>> >>>>> I think there are numerous problems with the argument passing in the >>>>> batch files. That was one of the things that the exe files aimed to >>>>> improve on. I must admit to having reservations about the new approach. >>>>> Not so much with the concept but more about relying on the current bat >>>>> files. That said, I am not sure staying with the current approach is >>>>> ideal either. >>>>> >>>>> Cheers, Paul. >>>>> >>>>> On Thu, Sep 8, 2016 at 4:57 PM, Paco Zarate < >>>>> conta...@nazcasistemas.com >>>>> <mailto:conta...@nazcasistemas.com>> wrote: >>>>> >>>>> Hello Keegan >>>>> groovy and groovyc are working for me now! thanks!! >>>>> >>>>> The bat file seems to have an issue on Windows though: >>>>> >>>>> When the JAVA_HOME is not defined, and the PATH has an element with >>>>> & (ampersand), the groovy invocation seems to try to execute the >>>>> code after the & (eg. if mysql is installed there is a PATH >>>>> defined to >>>>> "c:\Program Files (x86)\MySQL\MySQL Fabric 1.5 & MySQL Utilities >>>>> 1.5") >>>>> This is the output: >>>>> C:\WINDOWS\system32>groovy.bat -v >>>>> 'MySQL' is not recognized as an internal or external command, >>>>> operable program or batch file. >>>>> 'MySQL' is not recognized as an internal or external command, >>>>> operable program or batch file. >>>>> Groovy Version: 2.4.7 JVM: 1.8.0_101 Vendor: Oracle Corporation OS: >>>>> Windows 10 >>>>> >>>>> I did this another test: I created an empty folder >>>>> "c:\Programs\sample1 & sample2" and added it to the PATH just >>>>> before >>>>> "%GROOVY_HOME%\bin" >>>>> >>>>> When i run: >>>>> C:\WINDOWS\system32> groovy.bat -v >>>>> 'sample2' is not recognized as an internal or external command, >>>>> operable program or batch file. >>>>> Groovy Version: 2.4.7 JVM: 1.8.0_101 Vendor: Oracle Corporation OS: >>>>> Windows 10 >>>>> >>>>> So it looks like an ampersand in an element in the PATH can affect >>>>> the groovy invocation. >>>>> >>>>> Paco >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> On Wed, Sep 7, 2016 at 8:39 PM, Keegan Witt <keeganw...@gmail.com >>>>> <mailto:keeganw...@gmail.com>> wrote: >>>>> >>>>> I've uploaded new executables to fix the issue with invoking >>>>> without .exe suffix. >>>>> >>>>> -Keegan >>>>> >>>>> On Wed, Sep 7, 2016 at 5:21 PM, Keegan Witt >>>>> <keeganw...@gmail.com <mailto:keeganw...@gmail.com>> wrote: >>>>> >>>>> Paco, >>>>> Good catch. I'll correct that. >>>>> >>>>> Raviteja, >>>>> That's correct, they are just wrappers. The advantage is >>>>> that you can set file associations in Windows to an exe, >>>>> but >>>>> you can't associate a file type with a bat file. If you >>>>> could, than you'd be right -- there'd be no reason to have >>>>> a >>>>> wrapper. >>>>> >>>>> -Keegan >>>>> >>>>> On Wed, Sep 7, 2016 at 1:57 PM, Raviteja Lokineni >>>>> <raviteja.lokin...@gmail.com >>>>> <mailto:raviteja.lokin...@gmail.com>> wrote: >>>>> >>>>> I just glanced over the code and found that the cpp >>>>> code >>>>> just seems to be a wrapper on top of existing bat file. >>>>> Although it is good that you wanted to contribute, I >>>>> don't see the advantage in using exe file iff all it >>>>> does is wrap existing bat file. >>>>> >>>>> Thanks, >>>>> Raviteja >>>>> >>>>> On Wed, Sep 7, 2016 at 5:45 AM, Paco Zarate >>>>> <conta...@nazcasistemas.com >>>>> <mailto:conta...@nazcasistemas.com>> wrote: >>>>> >>>>> Hello Keegan! >>>>> >>>>> I was trying the new .exe files and i receive these >>>>> errors when using the commands without .exe: >>>>> >>>>> C:\WINDOWS\system32>groovyc -v >>>>> 'groobat' is not recognized as an internal or >>>>> external command, >>>>> operable program or batch file. >>>>> >>>>> C:\WINDOWS\system32>groovy -v >>>>> 'grobat' is not recognized as an internal or >>>>> external command, >>>>> operable program or batch file. >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> Including the .exe seems to work fine: >>>>> >>>>> C:\WINDOWS\system32>groovy.exe -v >>>>> Groovy Version: 2.4.7 JVM: 1.8.0_101 Vendor: Oracle >>>>> Corporation OS: Windows 10 >>>>> >>>>> C:\WINDOWS\system32>groovyc.exe -v >>>>> Groovy compiler version 2.4.7 >>>>> Copyright 2003-2016 The Apache Software Foundation. >>>>> http://groovy-lang.org/ >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> If i remove the JAVA_HOME env variable I get these >>>>> responses: >>>>> C:\WINDOWS\system32>groovy.exe -v >>>>> 'MySQL' is not recognized as an internal or >>>>> external >>>>> command, >>>>> operable program or batch file. >>>>> 'MySQL' is not recognized as an internal or >>>>> external >>>>> command, >>>>> operable program or batch file. >>>>> Groovy Version: 2.4.7 JVM: 1.8.0_101 Vendor: Oracle >>>>> Corporation OS: Windows 10 >>>>> >>>>> C:\WINDOWS\system32>groovyc.exe -v >>>>> 'MySQL' is not recognized as an internal or >>>>> external >>>>> command, >>>>> operable program or batch file. >>>>> 'MySQL' is not recognized as an internal or >>>>> external >>>>> command, >>>>> operable program or batch file. >>>>> Groovy compiler version 2.4.7 >>>>> Copyright 2003-2016 The Apache Software Foundation. >>>>> http://groovy-lang.org/ >>>>> >>>>> Thanks!! >>>>> >>>>> Paco. >>>>> >>>>> On Thu, Sep 1, 2016 at 2:05 PM, Keegan Witt >>>>> <keeganw...@gmail.com <mailto:keeganw...@gmail.com >>>>> >> >>>>> wrote: >>>>> >>>>> I'm building some new binaries for Windows >>>>> (groovy.exe, groovyConsole.exe, etc) and am >>>>> looking for some folks to test and code review >>>>> it. Their temporary home is here: >>>>> https://github.com/keeganwitt/groovy-binaries >>>>> <https://github.com/keeganwitt/groovy-binaries>. >>>>> After >>>>> I've incorporated any feedback I get, I'll >>>>> transfer it to a repo under the groovy org on >>>>> Github (haven't decided yet whether that should >>>>> begroovy-windows-installer >>>>> <https://github.com/groovy/gro >>>>> ovy-windows-installer> orgroovy-native-launcher >>>>> <https://github.com/groovy/gro >>>>> ovy-native-launcher>). >>>>> >>>>> To make it easy to test, you can download the >>>>> compiled binaries from here >>>>> (https://drive.google.com/fold >>>>> erview?id=0B_uOQFeu84v0TDVkS00xeE5yNHc&usp=sharing >>>>> <https://drive.google.com/fold >>>>> erview?id=0B_uOQFeu84v0TDVkS00xeE5yNHc&usp=sharing>) >>>>> >>>>> and put them in your current Groovy >>>>> installation >>>>> (whether from zip or installer). >>>>> >>>>> The overall approach is to have an exe that >>>>> calls the matching .bat file. This approach >>>>> was >>>>> to avoid a few things I didn't like about the >>>>> current binaries, namely >>>>> Windows installer determines 32 or 64 bit >>>>> version of Java at install time and installs >>>>> the >>>>> appropriate groovy.exe, but if you change your >>>>> Java version later, exe won't be able to run >>>>> Groovy because it won't be able to find right >>>>> Java to invoke. >>>>> Binaries have their own logic to find Java, >>>>> which adds unnecessary complexity since the >>>>> batch files maintained by the Groovy team >>>>> already have this logic. >>>>> Parameters are hard-coded into the binaries, >>>>> coupling any change in parameters between >>>>> Groovy >>>>> versions to that binary. >>>>> I'm not a Windows or C++ guy, so there are some >>>>> things I'd like somebody's thoughts on: >>>>> Am I following best practices in C++ source and >>>>> Makefile? >>>>> Would it be better to have wmain() instead of >>>>> main()? >>>>> Any better way to have done resource templating >>>>> other than/sed/? >>>>> Would there be a reason to have chosen C over >>>>> C++? >>>>> Any non-ASCII character hangups? >>>>> Runninggroovy.exe 象.groovy 象 seemed to invoke >>>>> and pass argument in fine, but it printed the >>>>> arg as a question mark. Although the current >>>>> binaries binaries do the same thing, >>>>> so maybe it's a limitation of/cmd.exe/. >>>>> Does my strategy of passing args from exe to >>>>> bat >>>>> have any edge cases to worry about with the use >>>>> of system() andCreateProcess()? >>>>> >>>>> -Keegan >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> -- >>>>> *Raviteja Lokineni* | Business Intelligence Developer >>>>> TD Ameritrade >>>>> >>>>> E: raviteja.lokin...@gmail.com >>>>> <mailto:raviteja.lokin...@gmail.com> >>>>> >>>>> View Raviteja Lokineni's profile on LinkedIn >>>>> <http://in.linkedin.com/in/ravitejalokineni> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>> >> >
