Scons: Deal with backslashes in classpath - filepath

Somewhere deep in an Scons build tree that I don't know the details of, a path is being added to the CLASSPATH argument passed to javac.
During the build, I get an error message like:
warning: [path] bad path element "C:Userraedengitrojecesource.jar"
The path that is actually supposed to be passed to javac is "C:\Users\Braeden\git\project\resource.jar".
I'm assuming that what's going on here is that Scons is generating a Windows-styled path somewhere along the way and Python is interpreting the backslashes as escape characters.
This path (nor a relative version of it) is not hard-coded into any build files. Is a catch-all solution available to this problem, or am I going to have to scour the project for the place where this path is generated and correct it?

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OCaml: How can I get the path to the *current module* / my project's directory?

I'm new to OCaml, but I'm trying to figure out the equivalent of __filename, __dirname from Node. That is, I need to build a path relative to the file containing the code in question.
For reference, I'm working through Ghuloum's IACC: http://ell.io/tt$ocameel
I'm building my first compiler, and I have an utterly-simplistic ‘runtime’ file (in C — temporarily) adjacent to the compiler's source-code. I need to be able to pass the path to this file, as an argument (or a pre-compiled version, I suppose) to gcc or my linker, to have it linked against my compiler's output when I invoke the linker/assembler tooling.
(This may be a stupid question — I'm at a bit of an unknown-unknown here, “how does a compiler get the runtime to the linker”, or something like that. Any commentary about idiomatic solutions to this is welcome, even if it's not a direct answer to the above question!)
If you're running the source file directly via ocaml myfile.ml, Sys.argv.(0) will give you the path to the source file and you can use Filename.dirname to get the directory from that.
If you first compile the source file into an executable and then run the executable, Sys.argv.(0) will give you the name of the executable. In that scenario it's impossible to get the location of the source code (especially if you consider that the person running the executable might not even have the source code on their system).
If you set up your project structure, so that your sources live in src/, your compiled binary in bin/ and the compiled stdlib in lib/, you could just use Filename.dirname Sys.argv.(0) ^ "../lib" as the library path for gcc. This will work whether you run ocaml src/mycompiler.ml, bin/mycompiler or just mycompiler after installing everything to /usr/ or /usr/local/.

How to prevent absolute paths in dynamic linker

I have a solution with various projects, one of which is the main executable, and the rest are libraries the executable depends on. Each one compiles and links fine. However, trying to start the executable gives weird results. Using ldd, I see that the executable is trying to find libraries like so:
../bin/debug/libBlahBlah.so => not found
However, for each project, I'm declaring "bin/debug" (which is the output directory for these libraries) as a libdirs entry, and linking against the library by adding "BlahBlah" as a link, where "BlahBlah" is the name of the project.
I'm not even sure how to accomplish this without premake. Any help is appreciated.
The original intention was to have the library sit next to the executable then set an RPATH that searched for the library next to executable. With the way it is now, it searches for that absolute path relative to the executable... I cannot figure out how to get it off.
I'm using premake5. I've tried to use the nightly and compiling myself. Upstream is currently not compiling however.
If you are using the latest alpha or source of Premake5, you can use the "RelativeLinks" flag to use -L/-l instead of relative paths to libraries:
project "MyProject"
flags "RelativeLinks"
You will still need to set up the rpath properly though; you can do that with buildoptions() and the appropriate command line flags for your compiler. Maybe (untested):
buildoptions "-Wl,-rpath=."
That should work in Premake 4 as well.

Add application icon to air app while packaging with adt.jar: how to?

I built air app with icon in the past with flash builder, and everything was fine.
Now I have to build another app with adt(air developer tool), but I experience weird problems.
If I just place icon path relative to 'src' folder to app descriptor (as usual), it says:
error 303: Icon icon.png is missing from package.
If I use icon.png without path in app descriptor and then put this file everywhere(to root dir, to assets, to src, to build destination and so on), it again says error 303: Icon icon.png is missing from package.
If I try to add icon path to adt args like <arg value="icon.png"/> ( and put it to output folder as it seems that all path are relative to it in my case), it says The path icon.png is restricted. If you were trying to package Icon.png you should correct the case.
When I point to original file location ( <arg value="../src/assets/icon.png"/>), it outputs File ..\src\assets\icon.png is not relative to directory E:\projQ\flex\MyProject\bin (this bin directory is actually output directory). I've read unapproved comment on adobe forum that this is due to some sandbox limitations, but I'm not even sure that sandbox exists for adt( if it exists, then why? )
So, what shall I do to successfully add icon to that app?
I guess that using tools like resHacker to project's .exe will not help as .exe is just a launcher for .swf file, and anyway I consider that this awful way leads to the dark side of programming.
(P.S. can't add 'adt' tag that relates to adobe, not android.)
Nice. At last I've found the solution. So, the requirements for including icon while packaging manually with adt are:
Add file name to application descriptor without using any .. .
I beg you, don't even try to name your icon file icon.png. It is obvious name, and it was obvious for creators of adt. So it seems that they are renaming some files to icon.png or generating output to such file. Or put this file into some subdirectory of directory that is used as root by adt. Actually, error output exactly tells you to avoid using path icon.png. Correct the case phrase (which confused me) means rename your icon or move it deeper in directory hierarchy
Add path to your icon as command line argument to adt.
After generation you will see your icon inside generated output folder. You can remove it and application will still appear with your icon as expected.
This is more of an elaboration on the first point in the answer above to clarify for people like me who have been struggling with this issue.
The error reads "is not relative to directory", but what it means is "is not a child of directory". Basically even if you're trying to use a valid relative path, it expects it to point to something under your working directory. In my case the following trick worked:
./../..build/executable.swf
Replaced with
-C ./../.. build/executable.swf
-C makes ADT change directory to the one two levels above, and then you can specify the necessary file.
After playing with ADT a bit more, I now realise why it does that - the path you give to it will become the path within the package. So in the example above the file will be available inside the package at build/executable.swf. If you wish to make it available at package's root level, change the -C directive to the following:
-C ./../../build executable.swf

Java compile error. servlet-api.jar

I created simple Java Servlet: WelcomeServlet.java.
Than, I tried compile this file via:
javac WelcomeServlet.java
In result I see compile error:
package javax.servlet doesn't exit
I try find solution for this error with Google. And I find first part of answer: java compiler doesnt see servlet-api.jar file.
I know, that Apache Tomcat in it lib folder contains servlet-api.jar file.
So, I have this file, but where I must copy this file??
I try different folders:
echo %JAVA_HOME%
C:\Program Files\Java\jdk1.6.0_26
%PATH% contains this line: C:\Program Files\Java\jdk1.6.0_26\bin
So, I copy in:
%JAVA_HOME%\bin
%JAVA_HOME%\lib
%JAVA_HOME%\jre\lib
And in result same error.
And only after I copy servlet-api.jar in directory:
%JAVA_HOME%\jre\lib\ext
compilation complite sucessful.
My question: Why? Why I must copy in folder %JAVA_HOME%\jre\lib\ext ??
Where This moment describe in documentation?
And other question we have some official docs or specifications that describe folder structure for jdk folder??
You'll need to specify the directory or directories you want the compiler to search by using the -classpath command line option when running javac. The reason the compiler found your .jar in %JAVA_HOME%\jre\lib\ext is because it searches the extension directories by default.
This is for Java 1.5, but I believe it is more or less still correct:
http://docs.oracle.com/javase/1.5.0/docs/tooldocs/findingclasses.html
The link Shaun provides is a more complete answer. But in short, using the classpath is the best way to introduce 3rd party or external (to the JDK/JRE) libraries. The classpath is a concept much like the %PATH% or the $PATH variables, but specifies locations for java to use for lookup rather than the shell to use for lookup of executables.
The classpath provides the java compiler or java virtual machine a list of items to use when searching for resources. This "path" may include directories or files. It will typically include jar files and sometimes locations of configuration files. Many Java based lookup schemes for files configuration or otherwise use some variant of what is accomplished by [Class#getResourceAsStream()][1]'s use of walking the Classpath.
I have rarely seen an incident where putting a jar file in the lib/ext location was preferred to utilizing the Classpath.
The classpath is typically an environment variable (%CLASSPATH% or $CLASSPATH) or specified on the command line when running java or javac (e.g. -cp or -classpath see the help from the executable you are running).
Build tools such as Ant and Maven will also provide abstractions to defining the list of jars to be utilized by your applications and are highly recommended to be used for any length of repetitive change code, build, test, run cycles.

include external libraries (from a subdirectory of the source-code-folder) in qt

I am a bit confused by the way qt handles libraries. My plan was to put the external libraries I need into the source directory, so that a do not have to install them into the system. As this doesn't seem to work (see below) I was wondering, if this is generally a bad idea or if there is some trick to it??
So I compiled the libraries and put them into /mysubdir. In the .pro-file I added
LIBS+= -L"mysubdir" -l"mylib"
I got the compiler error [projectname] Error 2 and don't know what it means.
The argument passed to -L must be an absolute path. Please give it a try with a full path, or at least -L./wcslibc. Though I'm not sure whether ./ will be recognized correctly. You can get the current path in qmake like this:
LIBS += -L$${PWD}/wcslibc -lwcs

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