[Xapian-discuss] how to compile java-swig under linux.

[Charlie Hull]

Jarrod Roberson wrote:
> ok, I am moving my development environment for the java portion of my
> application to linux (Centos 5 to be specific).
> I have found I can still do my python development on Windows. At least
> Komodo and Intellij IDEA run on both windows and linux! :-) I lost my Mac
> due to a job change :-(.
> 
> Anyway, long story short, I am trying to get the java-swig bindings to build
> and am having no luck.
> xapian-core 1.0.5 builds fine, I got the python bindings builidng fine as
> well. Just as plain and simple as it was on OSX.
> This is what I am getting as output.
> 
> [jhr at localhost java-swig]$ make
> make  all-am
> make[1]: Entering directory `/home/jhr/xapian-bindings-1.0.5/java-swig'
> /usr/lib/jvm/java-1.6.0-sun-1.6.0.04/bin/javac -classpath .:. -d . Auto.java
> ./XapianJNI.java:192: cannot find symbol
> symbol  : class Sorter
> location: class XapianJNI
>   public final static native void Enquire_setSortByKey__SWIG_0(long jarg1,
> Enquire jarg1_, long jarg2, Sorter jarg2_, boolean jarg3);

Interestingly I had a go at making a Windows MSVC build file for the 
Java Swig bindings on Friday, and got exactly the same errors - I'm in 
no way a Java expert so gave up at that point!

If we can solve this we might thus be able to help with your original 
issue, Jarrod...

Cheers

Charlie