****Resent**** Need Help on Compiling DWT2 in XP

[Sam Hu]

Sam Hu Wrote:

> Hi Frank,
> 
> I re-built DWT2 with rake clean all and everything went smoothly and successfully;But when I tried to build a my own pragram (testDWT2.d)which is placed in the C:\TangoD\dwt2\org.eclipse.jface.snippets\EclipseJfaceSnippets\org\eclipse\jface\snippets\viewers folder with the command:rake jfacesnippets,it failed with below error:
> 
> C:\TangoD\dwt2>rake jfacesnippets
> (in C:/TangoD/dwt2)
> Building jfacesnippets[Snippet001TableViewer]
> dmd.exe @C:\TangoD\dwt2\rsp
> ......
> Building jfacesnippets[testDWT2]
> dmd.exe @C:\TangoD\dwt2\rsp
> ppets\testDWT2.d: module testDWT2 cannot read file 'ppets\testDWT2.d'
> rake aborted!
> compile error
> C:/TangoD/dwt2/rakefile:274:in `buildApp'
> (See full trace by running task with --trace)
> 
> I just have no idea how to compile my own program,although you have memtioned above,forgive me !
> C:\TangoD\dwt2> 
> > > 3.Is dssss still workable to compile DWT2 program?
> > 
> > Yes, you can just put all those -I and -J and -L into the dsss.conf
> > But dwt2 is not to be build itself by dsss. And it is not installed into
> > dsss.
> > 
> I read the dsss document and referred to the dwt-sample dssss.conf file in the previous DWT,and then tried below:
> My d folder now:
> c:\tangoD
> --------\dmd
> --------\dwt2
> --------\dsss
> --------\dsss\bin
> --------\dsss\lib
> --------\dsss\include
> 1.Copy all dwt2 lib files into dsss\lib;
> 2.copy all dwt2 res files into dsss\lib\res;
> 3.copy all dwt2 imp files (that's \java folder and \org folder under dwt2\imp into dsss\include\d,dsss\include folder now looks like below:
> --------\dsss\include\d\java
> --------\dsss\include\d\org
> 4.In d:\dex where is my own d program files.Say,here is a d program name testDWT2.d;
> 5.write a dsss.conf and save in d:\dex,the content of d:\dex\dsss.conf is as below:
> 
> # DWT dwt-samples top-level dsss.conf
> 
> [*]
> buildflags+=-g -gc
> buildflags+=-J$LIB_PREFIX/res -Jres
> 
> version(Windows) {
>     # if no console window is wanted/needed use -version=gui
>     version(gui) {
>         buildflags+= -L/SUBSYSTEM:windows:5
>     } else {
>         buildflags+= -L/SUBSYSTEM:console:5
>     }
>     buildflags+= -L/rc:java
>     buildflags+= -L/rc:org
>     buildflags += -L"zlib;libbz2"
> }
> 
> 
> [testDWT2.d]
> 
> version(DwtAddons){
>     [jface]
>     type=subdir
> }
> 6.when I compile with dsss build testDWT2.d,dozens of error msg :
> 
> D:\Laguage\Dex>dsss build testDWT2.d
> testDWT2.d => testDWT2
> + c:\tangoD\dsss\bin\rebuild.exe -Idsss_imports\ -I. -S.\ -Ic:\tangoD\dsss\inclu
> de\d -Sc:\tangoD\dsss\lib\  -Ic:\tangoD\dsss\include\d -Sc:\tangoD\dsss\lib  -oq
> dsss_objs\D  testDWT2.d -oftestDWT2
> c:/tangoD/dsss/bin\..\include\d\java\lang\util.di(296): Error: need -Jpath switc
> h to import text file org.eclipse.swt.internal.SWTMessages.properties
> c:/tangoD/dsss/bin\..\include\d\java\lang\util.di(296): Error: cannot evaluate o
> pCall("","org.eclipse.swt.internal.SWTMessages.properties") at compile time
> c:/tangoD/dsss/bin\..\include\d\java\lang\util.di(206): template instance java.l
> ang.util.getImportData!("org.eclipse.swt.internal.SWTMessages.properties") error
>  instantiating
> c:/tangoD/dsss/bin\..\include\d\org\eclipse\swt\internal\Compatibility.di(206):
> Error: cannot evaluate opCall("","org.eclipse.swt.internal.SWTMessages.propertie
> s") at compile time
> Command c:\tangoD\dsss\bin\rebuild.exe returned with code 1, aborting.
> Error: Command failed, aborting.
> 
> D:\Laguage\Dex>
> 
> This is all what I have done with dsss+tango+dwt2 but it seems just what a mess.So it would be grateful if you would like to write a simple step by step guideline the newbies like me to set up a working environment as quickly as possible.
> 
> Thanks and best regards,
> Sam
> 
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