Install ant. Make sure it is on your path (I'm assuming you're developing in Windows ...)
Change to the trunk directory. type* ant build.NET* All the Java should build and, assuming there are no errors, all the DLL's should be created. hth, Daniel On Thu, Nov 19, 2009 at 11:13 PM, Shen Wang <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Daniel, > > To make it clear, in the last email when I as about how you used ANT set up > to compile the PDFBox, I mean how to use ikvmc to compile PDFBox and some > other related packages like fontbox etc. into .dll libraries (pdfbox.dll, > fontbox.dll). Thank you! > > > Best, > > Felix > > > Daniel Wilson wrote: > > Do you ANT set up and building through the build.xml file that's provided > with the source? > > ant build.NET > > should create all the DLL's you need. I have tweaked mine a little in > order to build a strong-named version, but we really need to get yours > building before we bother with a strong name. > > Daniel > > On Wed, Nov 18, 2009 at 7:26 PM, Shen Wang <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Hi Daniel, >> >> Thanks for sharing with us the .net version of PDFBox 0.8.0. I have no >> problem of using it. Now I need to extend some of the classes in PDFBox >> (written in JAVA) and want to compile it into .net version. However, I got >> problems with that since it always misses some classes when I use "ikvmc >> MyExtendedClass.java". I also tried to use ikvmc command to compile the >> pdfbox package as well. But I think I must do something wrong since I can >> only get a single compiled file while when I checked the .zip file you >> shared, the pdfbox, fontbox and so on are all separated .dll files. Could >> you please give me a reference on how you compiled the pdfbox? >> >> Thanks and best regards! >> >> Felix >> >> >> >> Daniel Wilson wrote: >> >> I do maintain the ability to do an IKVM build ... so would be glad to >> collaborate on those releases. I use strictly the .Net version as I'm >> really a Windows developer, not a Java developer. >> >> 2009/10/13 Andreas Lehmkühler <[email protected]> <[email protected]> >> >> Hi, >> >> Daniel Wilson schrieb: >> >> >> A signed / strong-named version is now available >> athttps://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/PDFBOX-535 >> >> Great news, for all those .NET users. >> >> >> >> As noted in that issue, it is from the 0.8.0-incubating version -- which >> >> >> is, >> >> >> if I'm not much mistaken, what we released. >> >> >> Thanks for the effort!! >> I hope we will find an easy way to release the .NET version as part of >> the offical version of pdfbox. >> >> BR >> Andreas Lehmkühler >> >> >> >> >> >
