Re: A newbie to ant\question?

[Cynthia Jeness <cj@goldencode.com>]

Michael,

The directory structure of your source tree needs to mirror your package
structure.  So move Hello.java to src\Test\Hello.java.  I assume that TestHello
is not in any package so it should be in src.

Cynthia Jeness

"D. Michael Nelson" wrote:

> Buildfile: build.xml
>
> clean:
>    [delete] Deleting directory C:\Java\Work\doc
>    [delete] Deleting directory C:\Java\Work\release
>    [delete] Deleting directory C:\Java\Work\classes
>
> prepare:
>     [mkdir] Created dir: C:\Java\Work\release
>     [mkdir] Created dir: C:\Java\Work\classes
>     [mkdir] Created dir: C:\Java\Work\doc
>
> compile:
>     [javac] Compiling 2 source files to C:\Java\Work\classes
>     [javac] C:\Java\Work\src\Hello.java:3: duplicate class: Test.Hello
>     [javac] public class Hello
>     [javac]        ^
>     [javac] C:\Java\Work\src\HelloWorld.java:15: cannot resolve symbol
>     [javac] symbol  : constructor Hello  ()
>     [javac] location: class Hello
>     [javac]     Hello h = new Hello();
>     [javac]               ^
>     [javac] 2 errors
>     [javac] Compile failed, messages should have been provided.
>
> The above is a listing of an log file documenting my struggle compiling my
> project using ant.
>
> The project consist of two files. The first file declares class Hello which
> contained in a package named Test. The second file is a driver program named
> HelloWorld that uses the packaged class Hello.
>
> I an using a standard build.xml with no advanced gimmicks. The following is
> listing of the compile target.
>
> <target name="compile" depends="prepare">
> <!-- Compile the java code from ${src} into ${build} -->
> <javac
>   srcdir="${src}"
>   destdir="${classes}"
>   target ="1.3"
>   failonerror="no"
>   classpath="${lib_path}"
> />
> </target>
>
> I can compile the packaged class by itself and the appropiate Test directory
> is created. When I try to compile with the both files, the above errors
> occurrs.
>
> Any suggestions would be greatly apprepiated? Thanks in advance!