<AWT Dev> Can't compile (external) code against sun.awt.event package?

[Mario Torre]

Well I guess now it is ;)

Thanks for the tip!

Cheers,
Mario
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Il giorno 28/set/2011, alle ore 23:39, Phil Race ha scritto:

> javac -XDignore.symbol.file=true
> 
> although since the whole intent of the behaviour is to discourage external code
> from accessing sun.* classes etc, this isn't something that's prominently
> documented.
> 
> -phil.
> 
> 
> On 9/28/2011 2:30 PM, Mario Torre wrote:
>> Hi Phil,
>> 
>> Thanks for the explanation. Since we compile cacio against the rt.jar that would make sense...
>> 
>> On the other end, this is a problem, since building cacio will require a source distribution now... Is there any way to force javac to tolerate "friendly" code?
>> 
>> Cheers,
>> Mario
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>> Il giorno 28/set/2011, alle ore 23:19, Phil Race ha scritto:
>> 
>>> jSince JDK 1.6, javac has disabled access to new *internal* classes/packages.
>>> But it only operates when compiling against an rt.jar image, not your just built class files ..
>>> So I'd suppose that sun.awt.event was new in 1.6 or later.
>>> 
>>> -phil.
>>> 
>>> On 9/28/2011 2:05 PM, Roman Kennke wrote:
>>>> Hi,
>>>> 
>>>> I am trying to compile the Cacio project against vanilla OpenJDK7. One
>>>> of the classes references IgnorePaintEvent. This class cannot be
>>>> compiled:
>>>> 
>>>> [INFO] Compilation failure
>>>> 
>>>> /home/roman/src/hg/caciocavallo/shared/src/main/java/sun/awt/peer/cacio/CacioComponentPeer.java:[70,20] error: package sun.awt.event does not exist
>>>> /home/roman/src/hg/caciocavallo/shared/src/main/java/sun/awt/peer/cacio/CacioComponentPeer.java:[726,20] error: cannot find symbol
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> It used to work when I explicitely set the bootclasspath to an OpenJDK
>>>> build that I just built before (snippet from ant script:
>>>> 
>>>>         <javac srcdir="${dir.src.shared.classes}"
>>>>                destdir="${dir.build.shared.classes}"
>>>>                bootclasspath="${openjdk}/classes"
>>>>                debug="${compile.debug}"
>>>>                 />
>>>> 
>>>> However, now that JDK7 is out I was thinking it would be great to
>>>> compile against a vanilla OpenJDK7 rt.jar. I verified that the class is
>>>> in that rt.jar and that I am really using the JDK7 javac. I wonder why
>>>> javac cannot find it. Cacio code uses a lot of other internal classes
>>>> (sun.awt.AppContext, sun.awt.SunToolkit, etc etc) and it only issues
>>>> warnings about those. I think I must be missing something...
>>>> 
>>>> Regards, Roman
>>>> 
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