How to Build Jansi

The way most developers get started contributing to a project.

Building with Maven

Jansi uses Maven as its primary build tool for performing releases and uses the pom.xml to describe dependencies between modules.

Prequisites

Required:

Maven options

To build Jansi maven has to be configured to use more memory

set MAVEN_OPTS=-Xmx512m -XX:MaxPermSize=128m

A normal build

mvn install

Once the build completes, you will find the jar of Jansi located in the target directory.

Doing a Quick Build

The following avoids running all the unit test cases, we just skip the test running phase and not the building part

mvn -Dtest=false install

Using an IDE

If you prefer to use an IDE then you can auto-generate the IDE's project files using maven plugins. e.g.

mvn eclipse:eclipse

or 

mvn idea:idea

Importing into Eclipse

If you have not already done so, you will need to make Eclipse aware of the Maven repository so that it can build everything. In the preferences, go to Java -> Build Path -> Classpath and define a new Classpath Variable named M2_REPO that points to your local Maven repository. i.e. ~/.m2/repository on Unix and c:\Documents and Settings\$username\.m2\repository on Windows).

You can also get Maven to do this for you:

mvn eclipse:add-maven-repo -Declipse.workspace=/path/to/the/workspace/

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