Hi Curtis, Rahul, Although I'm also nominally a user of POI/HSSF, I need a particular fix (issue# 35799) for which Amol Deshmukh has created a CVS patch. Since the hoped for build did not take place, I've decided to try doing it myself.
I just went down the road you went down Curtis, to the "How to Build" page, downloaded the POI source, Java SDK (1.4.2), Ant (1.6.5), Forrest (0.7) and all the extras (junit, xerces, jdepend, xalan) and then we're left hanging, with no instructions on how to actually use all these tools to build anything. I'm also on WinXP (stuck on the Home edition for the moment, with SP2). I tried running Ant by getting to the Ant/bin directory and running ant.bat. It says the build.xml file is missing. I looked for build.xml in the POI source and found it, so I tried getting to that directory, then running %ant_home%\bin\ant.bat and got some help text. After running it again with %ant_home%\bin\ant -projecthelp, I tried %ant_home%\bin\ant dist and got a little further, but now junit is not in my classpath. Oops, I just put the junit.zip (and other extra .zip files) into ant/lib without unzipping them. Ok, onward. Unzipped all those extras into ant\lib and tried again with %ant_home%\bin\ant dist. Still wants junit.jar in my classpath. Ok, set classpath=%ant_home%\lib and tried again and it seems to be working -- compiled a bunch of stuff, and then running tests. Now all I have to do is figure out how to obtain and apply the cvs patch for issue #35799. In short, I have to agree with Curtis that the How to Build page needs a little more detail on how to build. Regards, Peter Dow Dow Software Services, Inc. www.dowsoftware.com 909 793-9050 voice 909 793-4480 fax -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.323 / Virus Database: 267.9.2/52 - Release Date: 7/19/2005 --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mailing List: http://jakarta.apache.org/site/mail2.html#poi The Apache Jakarta Poi Project: http://jakarta.apache.org/poi/
