I’ve managed to build the Java version of the WebDSL compiler on Ubuntu Linux 12.04. These are the steps that I took. Perhaps they should find a place on webdsl.org site.

Building the C version works as well, but make install fails.

This was done on virgin installation of Ubuntu 12.04 (32-bit in VirtualBox VM).

1. Install necessary packages:

   sudo apt-get install build-essential automake libtool pkg-config curl default-jdk ecj ant

2. Download & install latest (0.16) Nix source distribution from here.

   tar -xf nix-0.16.tar.gz

   cd nix-0.16

   ./configure && make

   sudo make install

3. Set-up Nix for multi-user environment:

   sudo chmod -R a+rw /nix/store /nix/var

   sudo echo ‘/usr/local/etc/profile.d/nix.sh’ >> /etc/profile

   source /etc/profile

4. Add required Nix channels:

   nix-channel –add http://hydra.nixos.org/jobset/strategoxt/strategoxt-packages/channel/latest

   nix-channel –update

5. Install required packages:

   nix-env -i aterm sdf2-bundle strategoxt java-front strc-java

6. Add required environment variable:

   sudo echo ‘export PKG_CONFIG_PATH=~/.nix-profile/lib/pkgconfig’ >> /etc/profile

   source /etc/profile

7. Checkout WebDSL from SVN:

   svn co -q https://svn.strategoxt.org/repos/WebDSL/webdsls/trunk/ webdsl-trunk

8. Build WebDSL:

   cd webdsl-trunk

   ./bootstrap

If the bootstrap step fails with : ./bootstrap: 13: ./bootstrap: autoxt: not found make sure that $HOME/.nix-profile/bin is on the PATH.

./configure --enable-java-backend

make

Submitted by Vlad Vergu on 11 May 2012 at 23:16