[ome-devel] Bio-Formats development

[Curtis Rueden]

Hi Roger,

Would it make sense to update the developer docs with all those tips?

-Curtis
On Jun 16, 2014 9:26 AM, "Roger Leigh" <r.leigh at dundee.ac.uk> wrote:

> On 16/06/2014 14:29, Thiel, Bjoern wrote:
>
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> Maintaining the Bio-Formats OME reader I tried to build the current
>> 'develop' branch but unfortunately failed:
>>
>> On a Windows 7 64 bit machine I just did the following:
>>
>>   * cloning bioformats: git.exe clone --recursive --progress -v
>>     "git://github.com/openmicroscopy/bioformats.git" "D:\Java\bioformats"
>>   * extracting eclipse-java-kepler-SR2-win32-x86_64.zip to C:\
>>   * installing jdk-8u5-windows-x64.exe
>>   * running eclipse C:\eclipse\eclipse.exe -vm "C:\Program
>>     Files\Java\jdk1.8.0_05\bin\javaw.exe"
>>   * importing "Existing Maven Projects" bioformats
>>
>> Eclipse installs something and restarts.
>> The background build reports 4129 errors and 4365 warnings.
>>
>
> Dear Bjoern,
>
> Please note that bioformats does not yet build with JDK8 due to a javac
> bug (https://trac.openmicroscopy.org.uk/ome/ticket/12099).  It will
> build with either JDK7 or JDK6 in the interim.
>
> Also, if you've not built bioformats 5 from source before, please also
> be aware that some code is generated, and python2 and genshi are
> required for this step, in addition to the java dependencies you've
> already installed.  Note that the code generation also requires using
> git core.autocrlf=input (*not* auto), since the code generator expects
> unix line endings (this is a genshi issue).
>
>
> Regards,
> Roger
>
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