Re: No VM02 at KFest?

[DaveSchmenk <dschmenk@gmail.com>]

On Jul 22, 11:57 pm, mdj <mdj....@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Jul 23, 11:54 am, DaveSchmenk <dschm...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > When javac goes traipsing through the directories looking for
> > the .class files, it will build them from the .java source if it
> > doesn't find them.  In my makefile (I'm the worst makefile author in
> > the world) I try to build all the class files up front so that I can
> > copy them to ProDOS image directory.  I've had a few bugs when javac
> > would update a class file before the makefile got to it so it never
> > got copied to the ProDOS image.  Arrggghhh.
>
> Try using Ant? A bit of simple Java glue for AppleCommander (assuming
> John hasn't already done it) and you could use AC to build image files
> straight from the ant build file...
>
> It'd be trivial then to make a template one that'd work for most
> simple Java projects, and ostensibly all practical vm02 projects.
>
> Matt

I probably should look into that.  Just another build system for me to
be bad at ;-)  VM02 expanded beyond my ability to make simple makefile
rules to get it to do what I wanted.  I'm sure someone who knew what
they were doing could pound out a 10 line makefile that did mine does.

Dave...