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Re: Does this mean that XCode sucks for Mac Java development work ?


On 5 Jul 2006, at 20:29, Doug Zwick wrote:

Jerry wrote:

Actually XCode works fairly well for Java, but there are some big
annoyances. The one which drives me completely crazy is that it can't
parse javac error messages meaning that you have to read all your
errors from the compiler text output.

I've got this working by using an ant (external) build target. There is an argument you must give to ant to make it not prepend its own crud to the diagnostic messages (-emacs). I also use an external build target for my JNI libs, using make. The JAM targets suffered in the switch to XCode 2, so I try hard to avoid them.

I'm already using the -emacs option. There are two problems: one is that XCode doesn'r parse the javac "cannot find symbol" message so that you have to hunt through the textual output to see what symbol is undefined. The other problem started just a couple of days ago - I'm guessing it was the 10.4.7 update. Now I often get Build Failed with no errors messages in the top pane and I have to read all the javac errors from the text output. This is really tedious as you can't click on an error to go to the line in the source file.

Jerry

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