Hi Mark, On Jan 24, 2012, at 7:50 AM, Mark - Mixtup wrote:
> Hello, > > I apologise in advance if this question is a little too basic. I have no > experience with Ant or Maven which I assume would have helped me in getting > started with buildr. I just got buildr installed and I'm struggling to get > anything building. I have a non default layout which looks like this: > > *\src\com\ud\robots\<.java files>* > *\src\com\ud\robots\assertions\<.java files>* > *\src\com\ud\robots\carriers\<.java files> * > *\src\com\ud\robots\functional\<.java files> * > *\src\com\ud\robots\trigger\<.java files> * Looking at this listing, it seems like what you have is a single source directory (src) that contains code in five java packages (com.ud.robots, com.ud.assertions, com.ud.carriers, etc.). Unless you're sure you want to compile each package into a separate jar, what you want is custom_layout[:source, :main, :java] = 'src' > > First I assumed that if I placed the buildfile in \ and then edited the > layouts like this... > > *custom_layout[:source, :main, :java] = 'src/com/ud/robots'* > * > custom _layout[:source, :test] = 'test' > custom _layout[:target, :main] = 'bin' > custom _layout[:target, :test] = 'bin' > * > > ...and then added the following in the main define... > > *compile.from _(:src, :main, :java)* If you change the layout for the project, you shouldn't need to use compile.from -- the default will work. If you do want to use compile.from, you want to say compile.from _(:source, :main, :java) for the path_to (underscore) method to use the values from your layout. > > the build would work, but instead I get the following error... > > *Exception while invoking prerequisites of task <Buildr::CompileTask > Jamie's Robot:compile => [Jamie's Robot:resources, C:/Documents and > Settings/mac/Eclipse Workspace/Jamie's Robot/src/main/java]>* > * > * > So now I have two questions: > > 1. Do I need to manually define the resources task? If so, could you point > me to an example? There should be a resources task already. The part of the error you've copied here doesn't indicate what the actual problem was, just that there was a problem. My guess based on what you said above is that the source directory the error message is referring to (C:/Documents and Settings/mac/Eclipse Workspace/Jamie's Robot/src/main/java) doesn't exist. If my other suggestions don't work, please try to invoke buildr with the --trace option and send us the full output. > 2. Will having one central buildfile like this work, or do I need to have a > separate one in each subdirectory as well as the root? If you really want to compile each java package separately, you will need to have multiple subprojects in a single buildfile. However, like I indicated above, please make sure that's really what you want. Rhett > > Kind regards, > > Mark Coleman
