Compiling Xindice on Unix

Intended audience
Purpose
Prerequisites
Steps
Revisions

Intended audience

This How-to is aimed at developers who want to compile Xindice on Unix platform.

Purpose

Following the steps of this how-to should allow you to compile Xindice on unix platform.

Prerequisites

See the prerequisites page.

Steps

Don't skip the prerequisites

Be sure to follow the prerequisites.

Verify your environment

Make sure you have the JAVA_HOME environment variable set. If you are running Mac OS X, build script will attempt to guess it so you get away with skipping this step.

  quintara:~> echo $JAVA_HOME
  /usr/java/jdk1.3.1_10
  quintara:~>

Compile

Navigate to the location where you untarred your Xindice sources (or to your svn checkout of Xindice source code) and run the build.sh script. Your output will resemble:

  quintara:/xml-xindice> ./build.sh

  Apache Xindice Build System
  ---------------------------
  Buildfile: ./build.xml

  init:
     [echo] Building with Java 1.3.1_10

  compile-src:
      [javac] Compiling 4 source files to /home/vgritsenko/xml-xindice/build/classes

  jar:
        [jar] Building jar: /home/vgritsenko/xml-xindice/xindice-1.1b5-dev.jar

  bin:
       [copy] Copying 2 files to /home/vgritsenko/xml-xindice/build/bin

  war:
        [war] Building war: /home/vgritsenko/xml-xindice/xindice-1.1b5-dev.war

  BUILD SUCCESSFUL
  Total time: 2 seconds

Warning

NOTE: Certain flavors of Unix require a space after the #! in the first line of the shell script. In this case, edit the build.sh file and change the first line from "#!/bin/sh" to "#! /bin/sh".

Verify the compilation

If the compile was succeeded, you will find the output files in the current directory.

  quintara:~>ls -l dist
  total 2778
  -rw-r--r--    1 vgritsen  vgritsen   475742 Mar 28 23:35 xindice-1.1b5-dev.jar
  -rw-r--r--    1 vgritsen  vgritsen  4279855 Mar 28 23:35 xindice-1.1b5-dev.war
  -rw-r--r--    1 vgritsen  vgritsen     1748 Mar 27 22:31 xindice-1.1b5-dev.xml
  -rw-r--r--    1 vgritsen  vgritsen     6503 Mar 27 22:31 xindice-dom-1.1b5-dev.jar
  quintara:~>

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Revisions

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by Dave Viner, Vadim Gritsenko

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