I suggest installing TortoiseSVN [1] and grabbing the source directly from the SVN repository. You can grab the trunk or any tag or branch you are interested in. Use "ant -p" to get a list of targets and choose the one you need. This is how I build Xerces and it work with no issues.
[1] http://tortoisesvn.tigris.org/ Jake Quoting Steve Weston <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > In response to Jake's questions: > > Within the application itself we are accessing the Xerces classes directly. > The JDK we are using in this instance is JDK1.3.16. The command I'm using > and the error are below... > > D:\SmwData\Downloads\xerces-2_9_0>ant deprecatedjar > Buildfile: build.xml > > BUILD FAILED > D:\SmwData\Downloads\xerces-2_9_0\build.xml:42: taskdef class > org.apache.xerces. > util.XJavac cannot be found > > Total time: 0 seconds > D:\SmwData\Downloads\xerces-2_9_0> > > > As you can see the problem is in trying to build the single xerces.jar file, > not in the application (at least right now thats where I'm stuck). I > downloaded the bin jar, the source jar, and the tools jar. I unzipped each > file into their own directory, then combined all of the files into the > single directory calles xerces-2_9_0. That directory does contain the > xjavac.jar file. > > The actual directions from the xerces site seem to indicate that simply > unzipping the three different zip files (using the jar xf.... command - jar > xf Xerces-J-bin.2.9.0.zip as an example) will unzip each of the jar files > into the single directory xerces-2_9_0. When I tried this is did that, but > because some of the jar files contain similar directory or folder names > things were being overwritten. So I unzipped them into their own > directories, then manually combined everything together to retain all the > various pieces of information. > > This is the piece of the install instructions that I'm trying to get through > and not having success... > > If you are on a Windows system and you wish to get only the xerces.jar file, > you would execute build.bat deprecatedjars. > > If I use that precise command (the build.bat deprecatedjars command) I get > the following... > > D:\SmwData\Downloads\xerces-2_9_0>build.bat deprecatedjars > Xerces-Java Build System > ------------------------ > LOCALCLASSPATH > Building with ant classpath > C:\j2sdk1.4.1_07\lib\tools.jar;C:\j2sdk1.4.1_07\lib\ > classes.zip;.\tools\ant.jar;.\tools\ant-nodeps.jar;.\tools\xercesImpl.jar;.\tool > s\xml-apis.jar;.\tools\bin\xjavac.jar > Starting Ant... > Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: > org/apache/tools/ant/ > Main > > D:\SmwData\Downloads\xerces-2_9_0> > > I don't know if this makes more sense than my original message or if this > just confuses things, but if anyone has done this and can get me pointed in > the right direction I'd appreciate it. > > thanks > steve > > > >>At 03:12 PM 1/26/2007, you wrote: > >>Are you accessing Xerces classes directly or via JAXP? What JDK are you > >>using? What errors do you get? > > >>Jake > > >At 09:32 AM 1/25/2007, you wrote: > >Hi, > > > >We have an application that is using the Xerces-J 1.4.4 jar file to do its > >parsing. Most everything is fine, except that its not properly handling > >some encoded characters (not changing a & string to & and causing some > >strange data problems along the way as an example). > > > >I've been looking at the Xerces-J 2.9.0 version which I'd like to use, but > I > >don't want to rework the entire application to utilize this so I was > trying > >to create the single xerces.jar file from this versions source code so I > can > >drop that into our application (reading the documentation this seems > >possible for backward compatibility). > > > >I'm having a lot of trouble with this as it continually tells me that it > >can't find certain files, even though I can see those files in the > >directory. > > > >I've downloaded the binaries, the source, and the tools. I unpacked the > zip > >files into separate directories and then combined them all together into a > >single xerces-2_9_0 directory. I added that to my classpath. I'm trying > to > >use the "ant build deprecated jar" command as the documentation indicates, > >but this is where I start running into problems with files not found, > etc... > >. > > > >Does anyone have any experience doing this? Any hints as to what I am > >missing? I've been reading the through the install documentation for this > >and as far as I can tell I'm following the directions, but they are a > little > >thin so I may be missing something. > > > >Any help would be greatly appreciated. > >steve > > _________________________________________________________________ > Turn searches into helpful donations. Make your search count. > http://click4thecause.live.com/search/charity/default.aspx?source=hmemtagline_donation&FORM=WLMTAG > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
