Thank you everyone. I'm not sure if it was my downloading the zip again or changing to a directory structure with no spaces. Anyhow, it seems to be working now. Thanks a heap everyone!
Cliff "Dennis Doubleday" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 11/13/2002 10:39 AM Please respond to "POI Users List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "'POI Users List'" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> cc: Subject: RE: POI build not working I don't think you want the ant jar in your classpath. In fact, I build on Windows with no CLASSPATH at all, and didn't have any trouble. The build script sets up the necessary paths. > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:Clifton.Craig@;rrd.com] > Sent: Wednesday, November 13, 2002 10:24 AM > To: POI Users List > Subject: Re: POI build not working > > > > Since it doesn't seem as though my entire email was fowarded > I will include it in this reply. I downloaded an extracted > the POI source to a "Java Dev" folder under the "MY > Documents" folder on my Win2K box. I cd'ed to this directory > and called the build batch script which runs fine. When it > prompts me for a target I enter test hit the enter key and > get an error stating that it can't find the > org/apache/tools/ant/BuildException class and that the build > failed. I copied the results from my test in my orignal > email. You can reference this below. > > Thanks for your help, > Cliff > > Original email below: > I'm getting frustrated with my POI build too. I've been told > it's because I didn't have ant originally and so I downloaded > and installed it. I set the ANT_HOME env variable and put > ANT_HOME\bin in my path. I also put the ant jar file in my > classpath. Whenever I run the test target from the POI build > I get this: > > test: > Running org.apache.poi.hpsf.basic.TestBasic > java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: org/apache/tools/ant/BuildException > Exception in thread "main" > > BUILD FAILED > C:\Documents and Settings\craic0ld\My Documents\Java > Dev\jakarta-poi-1.8.0-dev-s > rc\tools\cents\junit.cent\xbuild.xml:59: Test > org.apache.poi.hpsf.basic.TestBasi > c failed > > Total time: 17 seconds > > C:\Documents and Settings\craic0ld\My Documents\Java > Dev\jakarta-poi-1.8.0-dev-s > rc>echo %CLASSPATH% > \Java\lib\jtopen_3_0\lib\jt400.jar > ;C:\JClass;C:\JClass\build\jakarta-poi-1.5.1-final-20020615.jar;C: > \Documents and > Settings\craic0ld\My Documents\Java Dev\work > > Note how I've echoed my classpath to make sure that ant.jar > is available. At the start of the build execution it echoes > that it's using a modified classpath set (as I've also > verified) by the build file. It also says it's using Jakarta > Ant version 1.5 alpha. I don't see this refenced in the > modified classpath so where is it finding it? Is it the build > that's hosed up or is it my configuration? What am I doing wrong? > > > > > Nicola Ken Barozzi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > 11/13/2002 10:15 AM > > > > > > Please respond to "POI Users List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > To: POI Developers List <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > cc: poi-user <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Subject: Re: POI build not working > > > > > Andrew C. Oliver wrote: > > Gosh...could one of the windows geeks look into this? > > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > >> I'm getting frustrated with my POI build too. I've been told it's > >> because I didn't have ant originally and so I downloaded and > >> installed it. > > POI builds with the included ant and teh included scripts. > It should be that users CD into the poi dir and run the build script. > > What is it you are getting as an error? > > -- > Nicola Ken Barozzi [EMAIL PROTECTED] > - verba volant, scripta manent - > (discussions get forgotten, just code remains) > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > -- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: > <mailto:poi-user-> [EMAIL PROTECTED]> > For > additional commands, > e-mail: <mailto:poi-user-help@;jakarta.apache.org> > > > > > > > > > > -- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: > <mailto:poi-user-> [EMAIL PROTECTED]> > For > additional commands, > e-mail: <mailto:poi-user-help@;jakarta.apache.org> > -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:poi-user-unsubscribe@;jakarta.apache.org> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:poi-user-help@;jakarta.apache.org> -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:poi-user-unsubscribe@;jakarta.apache.org> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:poi-user-help@;jakarta.apache.org>
