An "cannot find symbol" error appears when trying to build all JOSM plugins

[jBeata]

The following error appears when building the plugins:

init:

[mkdir] Created dir: D:\Java\Workspaces\josm\josm1\plugins\surveyor\build

compile:

[echo] creating ../../dist/surveyor.jar

[javac] Compiling 30 source files to D:\Java\Workspaces\josm\josm1\plugins\surveyor\build

[javac]D:\Java\Workspaces\josm\josm1\plugins\surveyor\src\at\dallermassl\josm\plugin\surveyor\SurveyorShowAction.java:74: cannot find symbol

[javac] symbol : methodaddPropertyChangeListener(at.dallermassl.josm.plugin.surveyor.SurveyorComponent)

[javac] location: class livegps.LiveGpsPlugin
[javac] gpsPlugin.addPropertyChangeListener(comp);

As far I had seen the problem is that the LiveGpsPlugin class has no method called "addPropertyChangeListener" .

[akks]

Maybe this can help:
​http://josm.openstreetmap.de/wiki/DevelopersGuide/DevelopingPlugins

Main idea: you ususally need JOSM sources in specific folder to compile plugins. It is easier to checkout whole tree, as shown in wiki.

[bastiK]

No, jBeata is right, this method was removed in ​http://trac.openstreetmap.org/changeset/25790/applications/editors/josm/plugins/livegps/src/livegps/LiveGpsPlugin.java and should be restored.

[jBeata]

Replying to akks:

Maybe this can help:
​http://josm.openstreetmap.de/wiki/DevelopersGuide/DevelopingPlugins

Main idea: you ususally need JOSM sources in specific folder to compile plugins. It is easier to checkout whole tree, as shown in wiki.

Thanks for the reply. I know how to build a plugin. Usually before submitting any new changes for a given plugin, first I also re-build all the other plugins to see, if I did not broke anything. Today the re-building of the plugins did failed, and after checking several times, to see which plugin causes the problem I did found that the surveyor plugin uses a method from the livegps plugin which does not actually exists.

[bastiK]

Replying to jBeata:

Usually before submitting any new changes for a given plugin, first I also re-build all the other plugins to see, if I did not broke anything.

This is not really necessary, if you do changes in the plugins/mapdust folder, only.