IIRC following the README won't give you an SDK that you can use in
Flash Builder. That's why I indicated that a novice contributor might
benefit from a pointer to the 'ide/constructForIDE' script, which
would get his SDK in shape to be used to fix bugs the way you
describe.
EdB
On Thu, Jul 25, 2013 at 3:47 PM, Justin Mclean <jus...@classsoftware.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
>> There is a gap between how you build the SDK and how you make and test
>> changes to the SDK
> Not really once you have a working SDK set up you can just change it and
> recompile sub projects as required.
>
>> (working from memory here) After you build the SDK ('ant main') you
>> run the script 'ide/constructFlexForIDE' to prepare the SDK for use in
>> Flash Builder.
> Yep but there are other ways to do the same thing.
>
> The bits you need to set up and compile the initial SDK are basically the
> same as you need to test it.
> Java
> Ant
> Flash Player Globals
> AIR SDK
>
> Only exception is the Debug Flash Player which is required for the mustella
> tests.
>
> But this is all in the README and fairly well documented.
>
>> You then create your test application (in which you
>> will reproduce the bug) to use this newly build and prepared SDK.
> I generally have several SDKs, a clean develop branch, official releases
> (4.9.1, 4.8, 4.6 etc), and dev branch I'm playing about with. I often switch
> between them to see what works and doesn't work on what versions.
>
>> Now a question to all of you: can we make an app (or extend the
>> Installer) so the steps to prepare a system for building the SDK are
>> performed automatically?
> May be tricky given what it needs to download and set up (see list above).
>
>> - we can create an env.properties with all the paths set
> We could provide better samples which would be a start, but generally I do
> most things via command line and don't use evn.properties.
>
> Here's my the environment vars I've set up (for OSX), they depend on where
> you extract the required downloads obviously.
> ANT_HOME=/usr/share/ant
> PLAYERGLOBAL_HOME=/Users/justinmclean/Documents/player/
> AIR_HOME=/Users/justinmclean/Documents/air/mac/AdobeAIRSDK/
> TLF_HOME=/Users/justinmclean/Documents/ApacheFlexTLFGit
> FLASHPLAYER_DEBUGGER=/Users/justinmclean/Documents/Adobe Flash Builder
> 4.6/Apache Flex/in/player/11.1/mac/Flash Player
> Debugger.app/Contents/MacOS/Flash Player Debugger
> PIXELBENDER_HOME=/Applications/Utilities/Adobe Utilities-CS5.localized/Pixel
> Bender Toolkit 2/
>
> TLF_HOME may not needed to be set depending on how TLF is checked out.
>
>> - we can find and edit mm.cfg and create a FlashPlayerTrust file
>> - etc.
> For 99% of general testing, fixes, patches etc that's not required.
>
> Thanks,
> Justin
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