problems compiling jheatbugs (NT swarm 2.0.1)

[David Mechner]

Hi,

I just installed Swarm 2.0.1 under NT4 (sp5), and am having problems
compiling the jheatbugs demo. I'm new to Swarm, so I'm not sure whether
this is just "user error" or something more dire.

For example, from the shell in the jheatbugs dir:

bash> javacswarm  HeatSpace.java

Found 1 semantic error compiling
"C:/David/swarm/jheatbugs-2.0.1/HeatSpace.java":
                <-------------------------------------------------------
    36.         super (aZone, worldXSize, worldYSize, diffuseConstant,
    37.                evaporationRate);
        ------------------------------->
*** Error: No match was found for constructor
"Diffuse2dImpl(swarm.defobj.Zone,int, int, double, double)".

The other files give lots of similar errors.

I guess javac is finding the class ok, or it would complain about the
import statement.

Using jar and javap it seemed like the appropriate constructor does
exist (at least in the .jar file I checked). 

I saw mention of a source patch for kaffe, but assumed that it's not
necessary for the binary distribution..(?)


And while we're at it, I'm not clear on (and couldn't find documentation
on):
* whether I must use kaffe, or if I can just use any old jdk1.2 javac,
* what javacswarm does
* what all the different jar files are for
* whether the .bash_login and .emacs that get installed are
  somehow necessary or just for fun.

Thanks,
-David Mechner
http://cns.nyu.edu/~mechner/

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