Changeset 11513 for trunk/abcl/examples

Timestamp:

12/30/08 15:10:17 (15 years ago)

Author:

Mark Evenson

Message:

Update ABCL<-->Java example instructions.

File:

• trunk/abcl/examples/abcl/README (modified) (2 diffs)

trunk/abcl/examples/abcl/README

@@ -1 @@
-Building and running instructions
-=================================
+ABCL Examples Building and Running Instructions
+===============================================
 
-by Blake McBride
+code by Ville Voutilainen
+instructions by Blake McBride
+updated by Mark Evenson
 
-In general, to compile a Java class file (like Main.java for example)
-use:
+In general, to compile a Java class file (like Main.java for example
+in the 'java_exception_in_lisp' subdirectory) use:
 
-  javac  -cp  ../../../abcl.jar  Main.java
+  cmd$ cd java_exception_in_lisp
+  cmd$ javac  -cp ../../../dist/abcl.jar  Main.java
 
-where the "../../../" represents the path to your abcl.jar file.
+where the "../../../dist/abcl.jar" represents the path to your
+abcl.jar file, which is built via the Ant based build.  This path
+could be slightly different depending on how the system was
+constructed, and possibly due to operating system conventions for
+specifying relative paths.  However you resolve this locally, we'll
+refer to this as '$ABCL_ROOT/dist/abcl.jar' for the rest of these
+instructions.
 
 This compiles the Java source file "Main.java" into a JVM runtime or
@@ -16 +25 @@
 To run the example (Main.class for example) from a Unix-like OS use:
 
-  java  -cp  ../../../abcl.jar:.  Main
+  cmd$ java  -cp $ABCL_ROOT/dist/abcl.jar:.  Main
 
 or in Windows use:
 
-  java  -cp  ../../../abcl.jar;.  Main
+  cmd$  java  -cp  $ABCL_ROOT/dist/abcl.jar;.  Main
 
 where "Main" is the initial class to run in your Java program.