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bash: ./configure: No such file or directory

It seems cmake is configured to run a ./configure command, yet nowhere is it configured to generate a configure file.

Stop usage statement being printed when compilation error occurs -- makes it difficult to see the error and is unnecessary.

Build on 64d946d and add two new features:

• Generate just the shared libs in a single installable directory (considering OS X install_name)
• Generate just a binary, which is linked to the above

Hi, this project looks promising. I would like to try it out but I don't really know where to start. Is it possible to expand the readme with:

• A brief description of the goals of this project (compared to other robovm forks)
• A 'getting started' ie how to compile simple java hello world to a native exectuable
• what is supported, what is not supported, on which platform it is supported
• know shortcomings
• ...

Aura has git submodule dependencies on robovm repositories, which are in turn clones of other repositories.

The problem here is twofold:
A dependency on a dead project can potentially disappear. Rendering aura unbuildable.
Second, the robovm dependencies are clones of projects that haven't been updated in 2 years. Ideally aura should depend directly on the latest/more recent upstream projects and apply patches where needed during build.

Currently robovm/aura compiles binaries as a single static executable. It would be beneficial to have a separate (one or more) shared library with all runtime dependencies included. This would make the size of binaries smaller and fixes any licensing issues should aura ever work with openjdk.

compiler args follow a very java-like feel. Since the target here is command line usage, they should follow a more unix-feel

eg:

Instead of
java -jar aura/aura-dist/lib/aura-compiler.jar -cp classes -debug -verbose com.example.HelloWorld

maybe use
aura -c classes -g -v com.example.HelloWorld

Perhaps it might be of some gain to fix the wrapper script than to change the java code

Hi ashley!

I'm currently working on a debugger for MobiDevelop's RoboVM fork, since this is really badly missing.
Some basics are working, but a lot is not. I thought it maybe interesting for your fork too and maybe you could join the development ;-)

Take a look at:
https://github.com/MobiDevelop/robovm/wiki/Implementing-a-Debugger and
https://github.com/MobiDevelop/robovm/tree/console_debugger

Is Mac OS X a supporting platform?
I am not able to compile it, I get the following error instead:

CMake Error at CMakeLists.txt:89 (message):
Failed to locate MacOSX SDK 10.11

Currently there's no way to add resources via CLI -- there should be an argument for this

--resource (-r) or similar

Ccache may help compilation speed. Not sure if it's possible, but worth investigating

Currently robovm/aura uses the android/apache harmony jdk.

As aura targets desktop usage specifically, an openjdk port would be beneficial. initially this port could be targeted for the jdk8 compact profile 1 and gradually expanded to other profiles.

Perhaps it's interesting to investigate if openjdk mobile http://openjdk.java.net/projects/mobile/ could be of use?

There are multiple compile errors on OS X

Add a feature to output a library, rather than executable

Write some doco:

• creating a distribution release
• compiling aura
• how to use aura

Trying to compile an existing java jar with aura fails with error (I used the instructions in the wiki):
Exception in thread "main" java.lang.UnsatisfiedLinkError: Native library for linux-x86_64 not found
at aura.llvm.NativeLibrary.load(NativeLibrary.java:72)
at aura.llvm.binding.LLVMJNI.(LLVMJNI.java:804)
at aura.llvm.binding.LLVM.getLlvmHostTriple(LLVM.java:3103)
at aura.llvm.Target.(Target.java:36)
at aura.compiler.config.OS.getDefaultOS(OS.java:55)
at aura.compiler.target.ConsoleTarget.init(ConsoleTarget.java:93)
at aura.compiler.config.Config.build(Config.java:811)
at aura.compiler.config.ConfigBuilder.build(ConfigBuilder.java:402)
at aura.compiler.AppCompiler.main(AppCompiler.java:410)

Building with gradlew build fails with the following error:

:llvm:test
aura.llvm.TargetMachineTest > testEmitToFile FAILED
java.lang.UnsatisfiedLinkError at TargetMachineTest.java:33
aura.llvm.TargetMachineTest > testAssemble FAILED
java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError at TargetMachineTest.java:46
aura.llvm.ObjectFileTest > testReadSections FAILED
java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError at ObjectFileTest.java:62
aura.llvm.ObjectFileTest > testLineNumberInfo FAILED
java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError at ObjectFileTest.java:123
aura.llvm.ObjectFileTest > testLoadFromFile FAILED
java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError at ObjectFileTest.java:42
aura.llvm.ModuleTest > testParseIRString FAILED
java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError at ModuleTest.java:36
aura.llvm.TargetTest > testGetTargets FAILED
java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError at TargetTest.java:34
aura.llvm.TargetTest > testLookupTarget FAILED
java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError at TargetTest.java:60
aura.llvm.TargetTest > testGetTarget FAILED
java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError at TargetTest.java:47
aura.llvm.TargetTest > testGetTargetsMap FAILED
java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError at TargetTest.java:40
13 tests completed, 10 failed, 3 skipped
:llvm:test FAILED

I was able to work around it by disabling the gradle task -x llvm:test but ideally that should not be used.

Exceptions should show line numbers:

aura:

java.lang.Exception: test
    at com.example.HelloWorld.main(HelloWorld.java)

java:

Exception in thread "main" java.lang.Exception: test
    at com.example.HelloWorld.main(HelloWorld.java:8)

-D properties should be honoured by final binary (init.c?)

bin/aura shell script still references robovm dirs and jars -- this needs to be fixed.

Also the env vars need to be renamed

I followed from RoboVM's forks here, is this a kind of fork you are actively working on? if so I would love to help you with it, probably first things like docs and co.

Need a wrapper to compile directly from java src files

test javafx support and document

Create docker image to build aura