Re: export GDS 2

At 01:58 AM 1/11/2006, you wrote:

>  Whenever I try to export a layout in GDS 2 format, I get an error
>  message:
>
>java.lang.NoSuchMethodError: java.math.BigDecimal.<init>(I)V
>         at com.sun.electric.tool.io.output.GDS.outputDouble(GDS.java:924)
>         at 
> com.sun.electric.tool.io.output.GDS.outputBeginLibrary(GDS.java:621)
>         at com.sun.electric.tool.io.output.GDS.start(GDS.java:170)
>         at 
> com.sun.electric.tool.io.output.Geometry.writeCell(Geometry.java:107)
>         at com.sun.electric.tool.io.output.GDS.writeGDSFile(GDS.java:150)
>         at com.sun.electric.tool.io.output.Output.writeCell(Output.java:359)
>         at com.sun.electric.tool.io.output.Output.access$000(Output.java:82)
>         at 
> com.sun.electric.tool.io.output.Output$OutputCellInfo.doIt(Output.java:900)
>         at com.sun.electric.tool.Job.run(Job.java:493)
>         at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:552)
>
>  I'm running on Mac OS X.4.3 with Java 1.4.2 and J2SE5.0 
> selectable. Why would a
>  method be missing?  Am I missing a java library?  I'm ecstatic to finally
>  be able to design actual hardware on a Mac after waiting for many years and
>  now I'm so close!  Any insights are appreciated.

I apologize for this difficulty.  Happily, BigDecimal is only used in 
GDS output.

Nevertheless, the solution to this problem is discussed at this web page:
      http://mckoi.com/database/mail/subject.jsp?id=7247

 From my interpretation of that page, the simplest solution is to run 
Electric under the J2SE5.0 version of Java.  However, if you are 
adventurous and willing to unpack the source code and recompile it, 
you can cast the constructor's argument to be (long).

    -Steven Rubin