Hi Jan, Thanks. Things are starting to come together in my head. If I understand, ant doesn't need the Eclipse .classpath at all and only the classpath suggested by Matt is used by ant, right?
On 2/18/2019 8:11 AM, Jan Matèrne (jhm) wrote:
> Matt is correct: you are mixing Eclipse and Ant definitions.
> So here some points by me:
> * There is no default behaviour of <javac>. You have to specify the paths the
> compiler should use by yourself.
> * <javac ... classpath=".classpath"/> means, that the file or directory
> ".classpath" should be used for classpath. But the .classpath-file is not a
> jar file, it is a xml file.
> * I try to "translate" the .classpath:
>
> Eclipse: <classpathentry including="**/*.java" kind="src"
> output="target/classes" path="src">
> Ant: <javac src="src" dest="target/classes" includes=**/*.java"/>
>
> Eclipse: <classpathentry kind="con"
> path="org.eclipse.jdt.launching.JRE_CONTAINER/org.eclipse.jdt.internal.debug.ui.launcher.StandardVMType/JavaSE-1.7">
> Ant: not used (include current Java runtime)
>
> Eclipse: <classpathentry kind="lib"
> path="/lib/java-ext/json-simple-1.1.1/json-simple-1.1.1.jar"/>
> Ant: <javac><classpath><path
> entry="/lib/java-ext/json-simple-1.1.1/json-simple-1.1.1.jar"/></classpath></javac>
> ore more generic
> <javac><classpath><fileset dir="lib"
> includes="**.*.jar"/></classpath></javac>
>
> Eclipse: <classpathentry kind="output" path="target/classes"/>
> Ant: not used (I think this controlls the "export behaviour" for
> inter-project dependencies)
>
> So combined (and tuned):
> <property name="build.classes" value="target/classes"/>
> <mkdir dir="${build.classes}"/>
> <javac src="src" dest="${build.classes}"> <!-- includes not required -->
> <classpath>
> <fileset dir="lib" includes="**.*.jar"/>
> </classpath>
> </javac>
>
>
>
> Jan
>
>> -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
>> Von: Matt Bertolini [mailto:viper2...@gmail.com]
>> Gesendet: Sonntag, 17. Februar 2019 18:45
>> An: Ant Users List
>> Betreff: Re: Javac Run By Ant Script is Unable to Find External Jars
>>
>> Hi Dennis,
>>
>> I think you might be mixing up Eclipse concepts and Ant concepts and
>> that might be causing some extra confusion. Based on your original
>> email, the compiler is having issues finding your third-party
>> dependencies. I believe Jaikiran is correct in saying that the <javac>
>> task needs to be given some sort of classpath. The .classpath file is
>> an Eclipse concept and unless there is some sort of Eclipse/Ant plugin
>> I am not aware of, the .classpath file will have no effect on Ant’s,
>> <javac> task. Also, I don’t believe the <javac> task has a default
>> value for the classpath attribute. If no classpath or classpathref is
>> specified then the compiler is not passed any classpath information.
>>
>> I would start by locating the folder where your third-party
>> dependencies are and create a <path> element containing them like this:
>>
>> <path id="compile-classpath">
>> <fileset dir="/the/path/to/your/third/party/jars"/>
>> </path>
>>
>> Once you have a path defined you can pass the classpath to the <javac>
>> task using a refid like this:
>>
>> <javac srcdir="src" destdir="bin" includeantruntime="false"
>> classpathref="compile-classpath"/>
>>
>> Try that and see how it goes.
>>
>> Matt Bertolini
>>
>> On Sun, Feb 17, 2019 at 10:02 AM Dennis Putnam <d...@bellsouth.net>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> I apologize for being a pest but this is a problem I cannot resolve
>> on
>>> my own. The more I read the more confusing it gets. It seems like
>>> there are thousands of ways to accomplish what I want but none make
>>> any more sense than what I have. Is there no one that can help me
>>> debug this problem or at least point me in the right direction?
>>>
>>> On 2/14/2019 9:42 AM, Dennis Putnam wrote:
>>>
>>> Hi Jaikiran,
>>>
>>> Thanks for the reply. I thought the classpath parameter defaulted to
>>> "basedir"/.classpath. In any case I made the following change:
>>>
>>> <javac srcdir="src" destdir="bin" includeantruntime="false"
>>> classpath=".classpath" />
>>>
>>>
>>> Unfortunately that didn't help. The ant output is exactly the same.
>>> FWIW here is .classpath:
>>>
>>> <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <classpath>
>>> <classpathentry including="**/*.java" kind="src"
>>> output="target/classes" path="src">
>>> <attributes>
>>> <attribute name="optional" value="true"/>
>>> <attribute name="maven.pomderived"
>> value="true"/>
>>> </attributes>
>>> </classpathentry>
>>> <classpathentry kind="con"
>>>
>> path="org.eclipse.jdt.launching.JRE_CONTAINER/org.eclipse.jdt.internal.
>> debug.ui.launcher.StandardVMType/JavaSE-1.7">
>>> <attributes>
>>> <attribute name="maven.pomderived"
>> value="true"/>
>>> </attributes>
>>> </classpathentry>
>>> <classpathentry kind="lib"
>>> path="/lib/java-ext/json-simple-1.1.1/json-simple-1.1.1.jar"/>
>>> <classpathentry kind="con"
>>> path="org.eclipse.m2e.MAVEN2_CLASSPATH_CONTAINER">
>>> <attributes>
>>> <attribute name="maven.pomderived"
>> value="true"/>
>>> </attributes>
>>> </classpathentry>
>>> <classpathentry kind="output" path="target/classes"/>
>>>
>>> The "lib" path is correct. I am guessing that the next tag
>> essentially
>>> points the pom.xml so here it is in case it matters:
>>>
>>> <project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0";
>>> <http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0> xmlns:xsi=
>>> "http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance";
>>> <http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance>
>>> xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0
>>> http://maven.apache.org/xsd/maven-4.0.0.xsd";
>>> <http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0http://maven.apache.org/xsd/maven-
>> 4.
>>> 0.0.xsd>
>>> <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
>>> <groupId>KCBSEvents</groupId>
>>> <artifactId>KCBSEvents</artifactId>
>>> <version>0.0.1-SNAPSHOT</version>
>>> <build>
>>> <sourceDirectory>src</sourceDirectory>
>>> <resources>
>>> <resource>
>>> <directory>src</directory>
>>> <excludes>
>>> <exclude>**/*.java</exclude>
>>> </excludes>
>>> </resource>
>>> </resources>
>>> <plugins>
>>> <plugin>
>>> <artifactId>maven-compiler-plugin</artifactId>
>>> <version>3.7.0</version>
>>> <configuration>
>>> <source>1.7</source>
>>> <target>1.7</target>
>>> </configuration>
>>> </plugin>
>>> </plugins>
>>> </build>
>>> <dependencies>
>>> <dependency>
>>> <groupId>org.apache.httpcomponents</groupId>
>>> <artifactId>httpclient</artifactId>
>>> <version>4.5.6</version>
>>> </dependency>
>>> <dependency>
>>> <groupId>commons-io</groupId>
>>> <artifactId>commons-io</artifactId>
>>> <version>2.5</version>
>>> </dependency>
>>> <dependency>
>>> <groupId>org.apache.httpcomponents</groupId>
>>> <artifactId>httpcore</artifactId>
>>> <version>4.4.10</version>
>>> </dependency>
>>> <dependency>
>>> <groupId>commons-codec</groupId>
>>> <artifactId>commons-codec</artifactId>
>>> <version>1.10</version>
>>> </dependency>
>>> <dependency>
>>> <groupId>commons-logging</groupId>
>>> <artifactId>commons-logging</artifactId>
>>> <version>1.2</version>
>>> </dependency>
>>> </dependencies>
>>>
>>> Presumably the maven libraries are found from the zipfilesets in the
>>> ant script.
>>>
>>> On 2/14/2019 8:55 AM, Jaikiran Pai wrote:
>>>
>>> Hi Dennis,
>>>
>>> On 13/02/19 11:56 PM, Dennis Putnam wrote:
>>>
>>> <javac srcdir="src" destdir="bin" includeantruntime="false" />
>>>
>>> I don't see any classpath being passed to the javac task in your
>> build
>>> script. You should be passing a classpath containing your jars that
>>> are required to compile the source. There's more than one way to do
>> that.
>>> The javac task manual has more details about
>>> ithttps://ant.apache.org/manual/Tasks/javac.html
>>>
>>>
>>> -Jaikiran
>>>
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