[antlr-interest] building antlr 3.1b1

[Terence Parr]

Hi Hamilton, it would be awesome if you signed up on the wiki and  
updated that page!
THanks,
Ter
On May 22, 2008, at 7:48 PM, Hamilton Link wrote:

> Hamilton Link wrote:
>> I do have ANT 1.7 and JDK 1.6 installed but when I tried to
>> "ant build" the 3.1b1 distribution I got a mess of errors.
>
> OK, I can build 3.1b1 from the distro now.  For those of you who are  
> Java-illiterate like me, let me briefly clarify a few things:
>
> - In general when compiling java stuff you want to pass javac a - 
> classpath argument enumerating the jar files of interest, don't set  
> a CLASSPATH variable for your entire shell (usually).
>
> - If you're building it under Mac OS X or *nix, your classpath  
> separator character is ':' and under windows it is ';' --- and  
> annoyingly, using a ';' under OS X doesn't error out, it just...  
> ignores the classpath you're providing, so you get "package  
> so.and.so does not exist" errors for stuff you thought you pointed to.
>
> - Less obviously, to build antlr 3.1b1, you need one jar beyond what
> http://www.antlr.org/wiki/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=732
> says (and note the comment added one beyond what the original page  
> had).  Your classpath must include the following four jar files:
>
> ${ANTLRLIB}/antlr-2.7.7.jar
> ${ANTLRLIB}/stringtemplate-3.1.jar
> ${ANTLRLIB}/junit-4.4.jar
> ${ANTLRLIB}/antlr-runtime-3.1b1.jar
>
> - And no, junit-4.4.jar is not provided in the distribution, you  
> need to get it from sourceforge.  gunit's not the same thing (as it  
> turns out).
>
> - And there's no such thing as org/antlr/*/*/*.java in the  
> distribution (presumably because we're provided the jar files  
> instead), so I am setting an ANTLR_CP variable to the above list and  
> compiling with the following command within antlr-3.1b1/src:
>
> javac -verbose -classpath ${ANTLR_CP} -d . org/antlr/Tool.java org/ 
> antlr/*/*.java
>
>
> Now that I can do this much, we'll see if I can rebuild  
> targets, .net runtime assemblies, or the jar files provided in  
> antlr-3.1b1/lib.  I am guessing not, as there appears to be code to  
> these jar files that doesn't come with the snapshots.  Perhaps  
> someone in the know can clarify what having the snapshots (vs. the  
> exhaustive sources) does and does not let us build from scratch?
>
> I think, also, that it would be friendly if someone could go and  
> update the "how to rebuild antlr" web page at http://www.antlr.org/wiki/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=732 
>   ... it's not hugely out of date but it is a little bit out of  
> date, and it would be nice if that page made it clear what you are  
> rebuilding and what you can't rebuild without additional code not  
> provided in the snapshots.
>
> thanks,
> h
>
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