Closed bernd-wechner closed 5 years ago
Probably the Java version requirement. Does it build now?
Apologies, missed this update. Can try updating and building again later today or in week (am away right now).
I updated after your comment, so no need to apologize :)
Thanks heaps. I got around to trying quickly. It built fine. Reported SUCCESS! Awesome. Alas it drops the results I think in the target folder and in that if I run it as follows (which is how I start briss) I get a bomb:
$ java -jar briss2-1.0.1-rc.1.jar Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: org/jpedal/exception/PdfException at at.laborg.briss.Briss.main(Briss.java:59) Caused by: java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: org.jpedal.exception.PdfException at java.base/jdk.internal.loader.BuiltinClassLoader.loadClass(BuiltinClassLoader.java:583) at java.base/jdk.internal.loader.ClassLoaders$AppClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoaders.java:190) at java.base/java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:499) ... 1 more
a frustrating message because the ... 1 more at end that I don't know how see a full stack trace. Did a quick look on-line and best I found was this:
https://coderanch.com/t/442321/java/full-stacktrace
which I didn't find too helpful. Lacking the savvy to read this bomb meaningfully but looks like a Java library issue at some level, maybe a missing prerequistie library?
Just tried to build this as per the readme on my Mint 19 box (a derivative of Ubuntu 18.04) and got:
Briss, while unmaintained still works. It seems Briss2 is also now, unmaintained, but does not work. A shame. But maybe there is an easy fix to this? It seems the first error might be a big clue to an experienced eye. Me, I've never touched Java or Maven so am seriously green ....