[ome-devel] OME-XML compilation error

[Christoph Sommer]

Dear Roger & Mark,

thanks for the prompt help! Works like a charm now. :)

Cheers,
Christoph
>
> On 12/06/2014 14:49, Christoph Sommer wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I want to finalize the CellH5 reader classes for bioformats. While
>> setting up bioformats, I encounter a compilation error in the OME-XML
>> java libraries:
>> (Netbeans / current develop branch)
>>
>>> --- maven-compiler-plugin:3.1:compile (default-compile) @ ome-xml ---
>>> Changes detected - recompiling the module!
>>> Compiling 181 source files to
>>> C:\Users\sommerc\NetBeansProjects\bioformats\components\ome-xml\target\classes 
>>>
>>> -------------------------------------------------------------
>>> COMPILATION ERROR :
>>> -------------------------------------------------------------
>>> /C:/Users/sommerc/NetBeansProjects/bioformats/components/ome-xml/target/generated-sources/ome/xml/model/FilterSet.java:[62,1] 
>>>
>>> illegal character: \92
>>> [... many many more...]
>>> 100 errors
>
> Dear Christophe,
>
> This is caused by using "incorrect" line endings when building on
> Windows.  The python genshi library, used to generate this code, can't
> cope with CRLF line endings and this results in broken java code being
> generated.  (it's looking for "\[LF]" for line continuations, not
> "\[CR][LF]" which is why you see lots of trailing "\" characters).
>
> See: http://www.openmicroscopy.org/community/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=7386
>
> Essentially, you need to have LF (Unix) line endings when building,
> which implies setting 'core.autocrlf=input' for the git repo which
> avoids LF->CRLF conversion on checkout.
>
> Note that setting core.autocrlf on Windows can be annoying; there's a
> registry setting set on install, and a global value in the git install
> directory.  These appear to override the per-user/per-repository
> configuration values, but I've not determined exactly how or why this
> happens--it looks like git on Windows is perhaps buggy here.
>
>
> Kind regards,
> Roger Leigh
>
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