Hi everybody,
I am trying to compile an existing C++ project with the help of ANT. We are doing this with make right now and it works fine but we start to use Java for some smaller programs and I thought that it would be nice to have an ANT build.xml which can handle everything in the project.
The real problem is that I don't know where to start.
There are several makefiles in different folders and sub-folders which are all called via one single make. Possible targets for example are "make all", "make execs", "make config dep fast", "make clean".
I already searched the web for an example project where someone managed to compile both java and c++ within one tool but I did not find anything related to ANT.
What I found was the ant-contrib library and the cpptask.jar. But it seems that you can use this for compiling C++ code directly via ANT... I guess that is not exactly what I am looking for. I just need to be able to call the make within ANT and have a dependency on that process so that ANT will stop if the compilation of the C++ code failed.
I already managed to write a small build-file that is capable of: clean the build folder, compiling a HelloWorld.java, put it into the right directory and run the program. But I don't know where to start regarding the call of "make".
Can someone please give me a hand on this?
Cheers,
frag
real_firestorm@gmx.de
I am trying to compile an existing C++ project with the help of ANT. We are doing this with make right now and it works fine but we start to use Java for some smaller programs and I thought that it would be nice to have an ANT build.xml which can handle everything in the project.
The real problem is that I don't know where to start.
There are several makefiles in different folders and sub-folders which are all called via one single make. Possible targets for example are "make all", "make execs", "make config dep fast", "make clean".
I already searched the web for an example project where someone managed to compile both java and c++ within one tool but I did not find anything related to ANT.
What I found was the ant-contrib library and the cpptask.jar. But it seems that you can use this for compiling C++ code directly via ANT... I guess that is not exactly what I am looking for. I just need to be able to call the make within ANT and have a dependency on that process so that ANT will stop if the compilation of the C++ code failed.
I already managed to write a small build-file that is capable of: clean the build folder, compiling a HelloWorld.java, put it into the right directory and run the program. But I don't know where to start regarding the call of "make".
Can someone please give me a hand on this?
Cheers,
frag
real_firestorm@gmx.de
