Soooooo +1 :D Am 9. August 2017 19:50:42 MESZ schrieb Damjan Jovanovic <dam...@apache.org>: >Hi > >Building AOO's Java code is currently mostly done with dmake and >gbuild. >Both are ugly, unsupported by Java IDEs, and impossibly problematic >with >some development I've been doing, so I began looking for an >alternative. > >It turns out we also have Ant, which is well established, supported by >most >Java IDEs, and already a build requirement for AOO. But it's not that >widely used in AOO at the moment, only called from dmake, and used in a >very ugly way: dmake passes lots of properties to Ant to specify build >settings and paths to dependencies, making the build.xml file useless >without dmake - when Eclipse opens it, the dependencies are missing, as >the >properties they would be in aren't set. > >So I was thinking, why does Ant have to go through dmake? Can't it work >out >settings from the ./configure output the way dmake and gbuild do? > >Apparently, it can! As of revision 1804591, I've changed >main/set_soenv.in >to also write variables into a main/ant.properties file, in addition to >the >usual main/LinuxX86Env.Set.sh (which we "source"). The Ant project's >build.xml can then include this file (eg. using <property >file="../ant.properties"/>), and have available all the properties that >normally exist as environment variables. It can then use those >properties >to work out build settings and paths to dependencies. > >This means: >1. No "source LinuxX86Env.Set.sh" is necessary for Ant to work. >2. Ant operates independently and can build that individual project by >itself, without being called from a parent build tool like dmake. >3. (At least) Eclipse can now cleanly open the Ant build.xml, find all >the >JARs it depends on, and successfully compile the project :-). > >The only minor problem is that Eclipse writes the .class files into a >"build" directory in the project instead of the module's output >directory >where Ant does, but that's probably because the module output directory >isn't a subdirectory of the project directory. > >I've only changed main/connectivity/java/sdbc_hsqldb uses these Ant >improvements for now, but I plan to add more. > >Damjan
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