vJass Standalone Compiler

EDIT2:
Making globals seems to work, structs don't though, even though the syntax seems to recognize it.

Hi all, I'm having some problems with jassnewgenpack. I've got some help from Vexorian and others, but nothing seems to work. I've tried various thing, one of them were reinstalling wc3, but no success.

Anyway, I wan't to be able to compile vJass code, so I hoped for a standalone compiler for it. I read through the JassHelper readme, and found this:

Now I'm not sure about how to do this, I've tried some things, but the only result I've got is an error message with "File does not exist: -common.j".

I really want to start using vJass and throw away the ol' Handle Vars. But I need help in doing so. Installing jassnewgenpack does not seem to be an option.

What is the exact command you used?
I think vJass worked with just specifying the map's name, try doing that.
You probably also need to have both common.j and blizzard.j in the same directory.

Example:
jasshelper.exe "C:\stuff\common.j" "C:\stuff\blizzard.j" "C:\maps\mappath.w3x"

The files you specify should of course be there.

Could I get a reminder of what issues you were having with newgen?

I tried what PitzerMike wrote below you, read through that.


Ah thanks.
I tried it, but I'm not sure it's correct. First it starts loading (look like the one that WE uses) saying some stuff like "Struct - Writing", "Replacing war3map.j" and lastly, "Success!"

But nothing happens after that.


Well, for some reason it doesn't recognize the new functionalities. When it checks the code as I save, it says that the new vJass things (structs, globals etc.) are incorrect and gives me an error.


I'm running a non-cracked Wc3/TfT with the latest version.

Success is a good sign. It is supposed to stop after that, because it's finished.
You can open the map with WinMPQ and check the war3map.j script to see for yourself, if the struct code got created successfully.

I found this at the end of the globals in war3map.j:

So I assume it worked?

How am I gonna use this then? I can't just write the code in WE, as it won't let me save.

Will I have to export the war3map.j manually, edit it to vJass syntax, import it into the map and then run jasshelper on it?

Or is there an easier way?

You can save in WEHelper or Grimoire with syntax errors. Vanilla WE would probably just scream and crash, but it also (I believe) saves with syntax errors (when it doesn't crash).

The easier way is giving Vex/Pipe a detailed description of why grimoire doesn't work and getting the problem resolved.

Aye thanks, it's working now. I'll have some problems when having to test a code alot, but it's working.


I had a discussion with Vex some time ago on the mIRC channel when it was still alive. Jassnewgenpack was giving my wc3 some issues with the soundcard or something, so I had to reinstall it.

We didn't have the time to solve the other problems though.

It is not supposed to do anything, but if you want to have something like a dialog message that says "all is right" you have to check the return value of the executable call, if the executable returns 0 it is all right, else something wrong has happened.

I'm fine the way it is.