RomRaider

I'm sorry to ask such a remedial question, but I've futzed with this for several hours and am stumped.

My understanding of development under Java and Netbeans has been that if I specify library classes and companion files (ex. a DLL for an I/O class to use to get to com ports) in a project, when I build a .\lib folder should be created and the requried libraries and files copied into it.

My problem is that the lib folder does not appear to be created or populated. I can build, I can even run in the debugger, but if I try to execute the built class with the Java runtime I get an error that it can't find the required libraries. I've tried manually creating the .\lib folder relative to the java file, but the references don't appear to get resolved.

Again, I'm sorry to ask what is undoubtedly a remedial (if not downright stupid) question, but I'm stumped. I've tried searching all the Sun online tutorials, but they seem to skip this (presumably people with sequentially firing neurons don't need help with something this simple!)

Thanks in advance for any insight anyone can give!
-jjf

Oh, an Happy New Year!

I'm not sure about Netbeans, as I've never used it, but with Eclipse and IntelliJ you have to add each of the jars to the classpath manually for the associated project/module. I would have thought it'd be similar for Netbeans. This means you'd manually create a lib folder where you want it, put all your libraries in there and add them to your project classpath in Netbeans.

Not sure if this is the case, but it seems if you include a JAR in a project in netbeans, it will put a copy of the JAR in .\lib. But any JAR included in that JAR will not be.

The weird thing is it doesn't seem to move anything. Last night I tried upgrading to NetBeans 5.5 and created a new project (new project from source). I get exactly the same behavior. The only thing that seems to have changed is that the Libraries branch in the Project view will no longer expand (always shows empty, no matter how many libraries I add).

I thought Swing and a test window was going to be the big hurdle, now I'm stumped on getting gnu.io (RXTXcomm.jar and rxtxSerial.dll) properly copied and resolved. Again, I know it must be something incredibly stupid, but I've been stumped.

FWIW, I get the same behavior when I build RomRaider proper - the created .\lib folder is empty. But the built result still runs when placed above the normal .\lib folder - I can't seem to run my little applet outside of the debugger.

Thanks for the help.

-jjf

I just spent my lunch time on this and I'm still confused. After work I'm going to try assembling the lib folder manually, then recreating all library references in the project so they point there.

@#$%@#$! This is frustrating...

-jjf

Don't want to start an IDE holy war, but ditch Netbeans and try Eclipse, or even better, Intellij (limited to 30 day trial if you don't buy it though...)

I'm ready to try a switch - I don't want a holy war either, but I don't have enough hair left on my head to keep pulling it out!

Thanks for the tip. I'll give Intellij a try.

-jjf

i seem to be having the same problem in eclipse when trying to get the new gui to run. i am pretty sure i have my buildpath set correctly. any suggestions?

In the arguments pane of the run dialog in RomRaider, you need to put in -Djava.library.path=c:\blah\blah to the folder that contains all the dlls rxtx uses. I'm lazy so I create a folder, dump in all the dlls and use that argument to target it.