Installation on Windows

Installing SAFBuilder Instructions for Windows

Prerequisite:

Install Java JDK

You should be able to download an installer for the JDK from: http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javase/downloads/jdk-6u25-download-346242.html

Obtain the source code:

Download the .zip archive of the SAFBuilder source code

https://github.com/peterdietz/SAFBuilder/zipball/master

Extract downloaded archive

Open the downloaded .zip you downloaded from Github, and specify the extraction location to something easy to type such as: C:\SAFBuilder

Since the .zip is autogenerated by GitHub, it includes a uniquely named directory that is unneeded and only lengthens the path to the code. Once you extract all files to C:\SAFBuilder, open "peterdietz-SAFBuilder-xxxxxx" and move all the contents of that folder to C:\SAFBuilder.

Compile the source code through Command Prompt

Open "Command Prompt"

WindowsKey + R, type in "cmd", hit enter.

Compile the Source Code

You need to include the external jars in your classpath: commons-io, xmlwriter, commons-vfs. Then the compile command is:

"C:\Program Files\Java\jdk1.6.0_25\bin\javac" -cp ^
    C:\SAFBuilder\javacsv-2.0.jar;C:\SAFBuilder\commons-io-1.4.jar;C:\SAFBuilder\xmlwriter-2.2.jar;C:\SAFBuilder\commons-vfs-1.0.jar ^
    C:\SAFBuilder\src\edu\osu\kb\batch\*.java -d C:\SAFBuilder\classes

Test it out on the sample data

java -cp C:\SAFBuilder\classes;C:\SAFBuilder\javacsv-2.0.jar;C:\SAFBuilder\commons-io-1.4.jar;C:\SAFBuilder\xmlwriter-2.2.jar;C:\SAFBuilder\commons-vfs-1.0.jar ^
    edu.osu.kb.batch.BatchProcess C:\SAFBuilder\src\edu\osu\kb\sample_data AAA_batch-metadata.csv

You don't need the carets "^" in your command, but they are in this guide to make it slightly easier to read. The whole command to enter should be on one line for each step.