----- Original Message ----- From: "Steve Loughran" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Saturday, July 07, 2001 6:58 PM Subject: Re: build.exe
> > Some problems remain: > > - Doesn't work with JDK 1.1 (Don't know how to start a VM?) > > MS JVM is fairly easy to start from an exe; its just a COM object or > something. The source to do it comes with the MS j++ SDK. But I'm not sure > we should encourage use of java1.1 or corrupted variants, at least not if it > involves extra effort on our part. I just mentioned it because Ant 1.x is generally supported under JDK 1.1. Not really under MS VM, but personally I use the MS VM (and Visual J++) at work. > > - You can't pass any arguments to the VM (to specify memory sizes). > > Interesting -I wonder how java.exe does it? I didn't want to say it's impossible - just wanted to say that it's not possible with the current implementation of "ant.exe"... > I've looked at the source; no pointer problems spring to mind, though I'd > use more of std::sting than legacy sprintf stuff. I have only changed small parts of it - the original source was written by Michael Jennings and posted to the list... > If I were using/editing this app, here are the changes I'd make. Note I'm > not promising to make the changes, I just know what to do if I had the time > :-) Thanks for you input - Iwill see if I can (will) dive so deep into C++... Nico
