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prisonerjohn
How to compile a library?
May 18th, 2007, 10:22pm  
Hello,

I was wondering if someone who has successfully created a Processing library could tell me what compiler they used to build it.

I am having a pretty major problem, which you can read about here: http://processing.org/discourse/yabb_beta/YaBB.cgi?board=os_libraries_tools;action=display;num=1171639720. I thought it was related to having version 1.5 classes, but I am starting to think that this is not the case. I tried using EEL (http://www.masutti.ch/eel/) and Retroweaver (http://retroweaver.sourceforge.net/) to end up with 1.4 code, but I keep getting the same error when using my library in the Processing IDE (it works fine in Eclipse or NetBeans). I asked on the Jikes mailing list and was told that the problem is probably related to Jikes not understanding the pre-compiled classes.

So, before I go through 104 classes to remove generics and  for-each loops:
Is everyone compiling their libraries using Jikes?
If not, what are you using?

Thanks,
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JohnG
Re: How to compile a library?
Reply #1 - May 18th, 2007, 10:53pm  
I (and everyone else I think) build with javac the compiler that comes with the normal Sun JDK. There are instructions on how to do it here: http://dev.processing.org/libraries/
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fry
Re: How to compile a library?
Reply #2 - May 19th, 2007, 2:08pm  
the libraries distributed with processing are built with jikes. i also sometimes build libraries for personal use with eclipse. and of course javac, as used in the howto, is a straightforward way to do it.
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prisonerjohn
Re: How to compile a library?
Reply #3 - May 22nd, 2007, 8:35pm  
Hi,

So I went through all my classes and removed all generics/autoboxing/for-each loops and recompiled using Jikes and it seems to be working fine. Finally!

Thanks for the help.
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