Android App Build system differences between Eclipse and Ant?
- by Amy Winarske
The Eclipse build for my 1.6 application project is succeeding and the
Ant build is failing. I'm looking for help on why they aren't
behaving the same way.
We are developing on Mac OSX 10.5.8 with Eclipse 3.5 against SDK 1.6 +
Google APIs. There are no setting changes in Eclipse, either at
workspace or project level. Similarly, our ant is also a vanilla-
flavored unmodified installation of 1.7.1. JDK is 1.5.0_22. The
CLASSPATH environment variable is not set. JAVA_HOME is /Library/Java/
Home
The application was initially created by a team member using the
Eclipse plugins. The application references two jar files, one of
which has a dependency on javax.xml.bind.annotation.XmlSeeAlso, which
is not defined anywhere in our code or in android.jar. The other jar
file has an explicit dependency on android.jar. I generated the Ant
build file using android update.
The Eclipse project builds an apk and runs the application in the
emulator. I think this is incorrect behavior.
The Android ant project fails to build. I think this is correct behavior.
MyClass.java:98: cannot access javax.xml.bind.annotation.XmlSeeAlso
[javac] file javax/xml/bind/annotation/XmlSeeAlso.class not found
Any ideas as to why the two build methods are behaving differently? I
would expect them both to fail.
Thanks!
-Amy
