Re: how to get the classpath to be set by XCode for added libs

Hi there,

On 03/09/2006, at 8:40 AM, Chad Leigh wrote:

> I have not done any serious WO programming since 4.5, but I have  
> been doing hosting of java based WO since. I am helping someone now  
> and this person has an app that uses mysql. He has the mysql  
> connector jar and we are trying to get XCode to reference that in  
> the UNIXClassPath.txt file as HOMEROOT/Library/Java/ 
> mysql_connector.jar

The jar's called mysql-connector-java.jar isn't it?

> From what this person said, he added it as a lib to XCode and  
> rebuilt the app after moving the .jar to ~/Library/Java on his OS X  
> dev machine.
>
> What do we need to do so that XCode automatically makes the above  
> HOMEROOT entry in the UNIXClassPath.txt file.  If I make it by hand  
> the machine works fine so I know that is OK -- we just want it to  
> happen every time the app is rebuilt.

Xcode doesn't provide options for specifying search paths (e.g., ~/ 
Library/Java/file.jar:/Library/Java/file.jar:/System....). You could  
create an additional script-phase for the build process that can run  
last to rewrite the rule. Have a look at woaFrameworkMerge.pl (From  
project wonder) that can do this automatically. I've got a Run script  
phase that simply does 'perl ../scripts/woaFrameworkMerger.pl "$ 
{WRAPPER_DIR}"'. It bundles custom frameworks into the app/Frameworks  
and rewrites the classpath appropriately.

Perhaps easier (in this instance), if desired: you could put the jar  
in ${NEXTROOT}/Library/WebObjects/Extensions/ and not link it into  
the app. It'll be found automatically by the WO runtime. Just upgrade  
the jar when you upgrade mysql.

with regards,
--

Lachlan Deck