to build the feisty meow kona code for java, these packages need to be set up as external jars on the classpath: (my personal approach is to unpack the archive file to a known location and use that location as the path for the external jar.) apache commons logging https://commons.apache.org/logging/download_logging.cgi apache commons compress https://commons.apache.org/compress/download_compress.cgi apache commons io https://commons.apache.org/io/download_io.cgi apache commons lang https://commons.apache.org/lang/download_lang.cgi apache log4j https://logging.apache.org/log4j/2.x/download.html