Hiya Rupert,
Here is how I've built on Win98
1) Got Forte IDE. This is an excellent if somewhat large IDE written in Java for everything you could ever need. Go get it from java.sun.com. It also has built in ant support.
2) Got dbXML/Xindice from their website. I got the 1.0b4 release
3) Mount all the Jars as filesystems in Forte, -except- dbXML.jar
4) Alter the build.XML file using the properties window so that it puts the classes into the src directory. Why? Well, I've found that for some reason dbXML behaves itself when run in the debugger :( and you may wish if you're intending to modify the source to run it in the IDE anyway. This will simply make Forte/Ant place the .class files in the same directories as the .java files. If you leave it as is then a JAR file will be built, and you can run from the command line, but this is how to run in the IDE so it's easy to make changes.
5) Click the toggle next to the build.xml file and then find the src target (i think, it may be a different target. Use your head, it should be obvious which to use), and execute it. The class files will be built.
6) Now find the org.dbxml.core.server.dbXML class in the filesystem view and execute it. dbXML should run (you may need to hack the main file to set the DBXML_HOME property in code, I couldn't figure out how to make forte do this)
Hope this helps! thanks -mike
Rupert Schlick wrote:
I try to build xindice from cvs-checkout, for win98 this seems (not surprisingly) to be broken. I'd want to do it in linux too, but I managed to buy a monitor/graphics adapter combination not supported :-(
ant-bat: - The current xerces version didn't make it into here. - The labels checkdbXMLWork and checkdbXML aren't recognized as different (yes, really!), resulting in an endless loop. A workaround could be to rename checkdbXMLWork to checkWorkdbXML - product renaming didn't get through to this yet. (no bug, just to mention)
What was the intention of putting that much "intelligence" in form of directory-checks into the batchfiles? This isn't done on linux and is mainly an additional pain when debugging batchfiles.
At the moment, I'm struggling to tell ant that there is a javac. Micheal (Hearn) how do you build? What modifications did you have to make?
Wouldn't it be better to work with a separate installation of ant?
Tom/Kimbro - I'm willing to help to get the windows build and startup stuff straight.
So long
Rupert
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