PAiN Java based Mudlib
I stumbled upon this project found at http://pain.sourceforge.net/index.html that i though looked really cool. I can not get it to compile and i was woundering if anyone could lend a hand. I am relatively new to java. Here is the e-mail that i sent to project owner's e-mail with no avail.
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Hello Mike,
A friend and myself have downloaded your PAiN Java Mud Codebase to start a mud of our own. However we have run into an issue and I was wondering if you could give us a hand?
To start we have a PC that we are using as a 'server'. It has a fresh install of Windows XP Professional with all updates. I downloaded and installed J2EE 5 SDK. When we go to run the Build_all.bat we received the following error message
Buildfile: build.xml
init:
paindb:
[echo] compiling..
[javac] Compiling 1 source file to C:\PainMud\db\classes
codebase:
[echo] compiling..
mudlib:
[echo] compiling..
[javac] Compiling 168 source files to C:\PainMud\mudlibs\tinylib\classes
[javac] C:\PainMud\mudlibs\tinylib\src\net\sourceforge\pain\tinylib\logic\fn
\LogoFn.java:14: reference to Console is ambiguous, both class java.io.Console i
n java.io and class net.sourceforge.pain.tinylib.Console in net.sourceforge.pain
.tinylib match
[javac]public static void showLogo(Console console) {
[javac] ^
[javac] 1 error
I have gone to the C:\PainMud\mudlibs\tinylib\src\net\sourceforge\pain\tinylib\logic\fn
\LogoFn.java file and found the the import statements seem to be the problem. The import net.sourceforge.pain.util.* is not found. I did some research and found that this folder is located in the C:\PainMud\db\src\net\sourceforge\pain\util but the correct file is located in C:\PainMud\mudlibs\tinylib\src\net\sourceforge\pain\
Do you know any way to correct this? any suggestions?
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The same question is posed to the forum. Feel free you visit the website i post above to download the source code. I will also take suggestion on alternative but similar projects
[2106 byte] By [
Nexeha] at [2007-11-27 9:58:26]
Its one reason why you should not import packages using "*"
delete the java.io.* import statement. Then recompile. For each error it gives you need to add an appropriate import statement
e.g.
import java.io.InputStream;
import java.io.File;
etc.
Just make sure that you import the Console class from the sourceforge package. This fixes the code to work with jdk1.6 however you may have other problems in the code base.
You are actually compiling the code using java 1.6. In 1.6 sun added a class called Console to the java.io package. So you can either do what I suggested above (fix the code to compile against jdk1.6) or install jdk1.5 (which does not have this class) and compile using that.
matfud
Thank you so much I will try that RIGHT NOW, I will award points on my return. Thank you so much matfud!
Am I going to have to do this in all files or just the problematic one?
i think that this will fix one problem but I think that other import statements are incorrect as well... heres some of the errors before i make changes:
C:\PainMud\mudlibs\tinylib\src\net\sourceforge\pain\tinylib\logic\fn\LogoFn.java:6: package net.sourceforge.pain.util does not exist
import net.sourceforge.pain.util.*;
^
C:\PainMud\mudlibs\tinylib\src\net\sourceforge\pain\tinylib\logic\fn\LogoFn.java:7: cannot find symbol
symbol : class Console
location: package net.sourceforge.pain.tinylib
import net.sourceforge.pain.tinylib.Console;
^
C:\PainMud\mudlibs\tinylib\src\net\sourceforge\pain\tinylib\logic\fn\LogoFn.java:22: cannot find symbol
symbol : variable Log
location: class net.sourceforge.pain.tinylib.logic.fn.LogoFn
Log.error(e.getMessage(), e);
^
C:\PainMud\mudlibs\tinylib\src\net\sourceforge\pain\tinylib\logic\fn\LogoFn.java:28: cannot find symbol
symbol : variable MessageOutFn
location: class net.sourceforge.pain.tinylib.logic.fn.LogoFn
MessageOutFn.out(console, currentLogo);
^
C:\PainMud\mudlibs\tinylib\src\net\sourceforge\pain\tinylib\logic\fn\LogoFn.java:32: cannot find symbol
symbol : variable Mudlib
location: class net.sourceforge.pain.tinylib.logic.fn.LogoFn
FileReader reader = new FileReader(Mudlib.CONFIG_DIR + "/logo");
^
C:\PainMud\mudlibs\tinylib\src\net\sourceforge\pain\tinylib\logic\fn\LogoFn.java:54: cannot find symbol
symbol : variable Codebase
location: class net.sourceforge.pain.tinylib.logic.fn.LogoFn
return (template.substring(0, versionStart) + Codebase.CODEBASE_VERSION + template.substring(versionEnd));
Would you be will to make corrections and e-mail them to me?
