alternate build mechanisms

["Aldrich, Timothy" <ti...@csfb.com>]

Hello,
   I am a brand new Ant user.  I wish I could
commit to one language to do all of my development , but I have to follow 
many others in different projects. 
   I would like to use one build framework for all languages.  Can I modify,
hack , write an ant task to do this for other tools ? like gcc ? or ( gasp ) 
csc ( I have seen NAnt , but that's just more of the same problem )  

I will apologize in advance for the long , unformatted disclaimer that gets 
tacked onto the end of outbound email from our server ( and no I have no
control over it :)

R/S 
Timothy Aldrich 
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Re: alternate build mechanisms

[Steve Loughran <st...@iseran.com>]

Aldrich, Timothy wrote:
> Hello,
>    I am a brand new Ant user.  I wish I could
> commit to one language to do all of my development , but I have to follow 
> many others in different projects. 
>    I would like to use one build framework for all languages.  Can I modify,
> hack , write an ant task to do this for other tools ? like gcc ? or ( gasp ) 

use the <cc> task on ant-contrib.sf.net

> csc ( I have seen NAnt , but that's just more of the same problem )  

That'll be the <csc> task


> 
> I will apologize in advance for the long , unformatted disclaimer that gets 
> tacked onto the end of outbound email from our server ( and no I have no
> control over it :)

ah, a disclaimer about the disclaimer :)

ejbjar class not found exception

[Mark Wehby <mw...@TRIPLEI.COM>]

    I am not sure how familiar you are Ant 1.5 and ejbjar.  Below is what my
ant target looks like.  You will notice the ugly support tag.  Let me
explain.  The entity beans in the application have a class they return
called <ejbname>ValueObject.java.  So, if I set the dependency="full", I
don't need the <support> tag because the <ejbname>ValueObject.java class is
pulled into the jar file , than the weblogic ejbc is run.  Everything works,
but I have the same .class files in all the ejbs.  When I set the
dependency="super" without the <support> tag, I get an ant exception,
NoClassDefFound for the <ejbname>ValueObject class.  I have thought of two
approaches, one is to somehow use the support tag, but I can't figure out
how to make this work in such a way that it only pulls in the specific
<ejbname>ValueObject for a given ejb, not all <ejbname>ValueObjects.  The
second approach I thought of is to somehow modify the given ejb-jar.xml file
for the ejb.  That is what the dependency tag looks at anyway.  I just can't
figure out how to modify it.


<!-- Create the ejb archive -->

<target name="ejbjar">

<echo message="*** creating ejb archives ***"/>

<ejbjar srcdir="${classes.dir}"

descriptordir="${metadata.dir}"

manifest="${metadata.dir}/MANIFEST.MF"

destdir="${ear.staging.dir}"

genericjarsuffix=".jar"

dependency="super">

<!-- <support dir="${classes.dir}" includes="**/*CompanyValue*.*"/> -->


<weblogic destdir="${ear.staging.dir}"

classpath="${classes.dir}"

wlclasspath="${jars.for.classpath}"/>

<include name="*-ejb-jar.xml"/>

<dtd publicId="-//Sun Microsystems, Inc.//DTD Enterprise JavaBeans 1.1//EN"

location="${lib.dir}/ejb-jar_1_1.dtd"/>

<dtd publicId="-//BEA Systems, Inc.//DTD WebLogic 6.0.0 EJB//EN"

location="${lib.dir}/weblogic-ejb-jar.dtd"/>

</ejbjar>

</target>

Re: alternate build mechanisms

[Steve Loughran <st...@iseran.com>]

Stefan Bodewig wrote:

>>>or ( gasp ) csc
>>
>>built into Ant.
> 
> 
> Ant's CVS HEAD also supports VBC.

maybe even J#, though I have not tested that so the probability of it 
working is pretty low (in the near zero category). I dont have J# on any 
of my boxes, see.

Re: alternate build mechanisms

[Stefan Bodewig <bo...@apache.org>]

forgot some things ...

On 21 Mar 2003, Stefan Bodewig <bo...@apache.org> wrote:

> <http://sourceforge.net/projects/ant-contrib> has C/C++ compilation
> tasks

They support certain Fortran compilers as well.

>> or ( gasp ) csc
> 
> built into Ant.

Ant's CVS HEAD also supports VBC.

Stefan

Re: alternate build mechanisms

[Stefan Bodewig <bo...@apache.org>]

On Fri, 21 Mar 2003, Timothy Aldrich <ti...@csfb.com> wrote:

> like gcc ?

<http://sourceforge.net/projects/ant-contrib> has C/C++ compilation
tasks with built-in dependency tracking.  gcc (among a whole bunch of
other compilers on multiple platforms) is supported.

You will want to download cpptasks from
<http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=36177>

> or ( gasp ) csc

built into Ant.

<http://ant.apache.org/manual/OptionalTasks/dotnet.html>

Stefan