Freedots Not Compiling on Mac

[judithhinlung]

Running $ java -jar freedots.jar returns the error "Unable to access file freedots.jar". Same error when running this command in freedots/src/freedots.
Running $ java Main.java returns a number of errors because sub-packages within the freedots package are not recognized: Main.java:39: error: package freedots.gui does not exist import freedots.gui.GraphicalUserInterface; ^ Main.java:40: error: package freedots.musicxml does not exist import freedots.musicxml.MIDISequence; ^ Main.java:41: error: package freedots.musicxml does not exist import freedots.musicxml.Score; ^ Main.java:42: error: package freedots.playback does not exist import freedots.playback.MIDIPlayer; ... Will try to tackle this bug, but any help/suggestions would be most welcome :)

[mlang]

Judith Lung notifications@github.com writes:

Running $ java -jar freedots.jar returns the error "Unable to access file freedots.jar". Same error when running this command in freedots/src/freedots.

You need to build freedots.jar first with "ant build".

Running $ java Main.java returns a number of errors because sub-packages within the freedots package are not recognized:

Yeah, no surprise. FreeDots is built using "ant", the standard java build tool.

-- CYa, ⡍⠁⠗⠊⠕

[judithhinlung]

Thanks so much @Mlang for your help. I am not seeing a freedots.jar file in the repo. what commands do I need to run to build it?

[judithhinlung]

Thanks @Mlang I understand what you mean now about building a .jar file with mlang (please disregard previous comment). For anyone else not familiar with using the Ant tool to compile an .jar file this may be a helpful read: https://www.tutorialspoint.com/ant/ant_creating_jar_files.htm

[judithhinlung]

To build Freedots: $ cd freedots $ ant $ cd dist $ mv freedots-[todaysDate].jar freedots.jar $ java -jar freedots.jar

Hope this helps someone who may have trouble building the project!