Hi, As noted in an earlier mail, I'm a total newbie where it comes to building and developing with the Open Source SDK. Today I gathered the courage to check out the 'frameworks' source from the repo and follow the instructions in README.txt. While this file contains a lot details (thanks, Alex!), I still had to Google some steps to get it to work (remember: newbie). I thought I'd try and save my fellow 'starters' some of this trouble, and write out the entire process as I experienced it:
(Note: this all takes place on my Mac with OSX 10.7. Your mileage may (will!) vary on other versions and especially OS-es) Software to install: - your Subversion software of choice (I use Cornerstone) - Java: OSX comes with a 'built-in' Java, which worked for me. - Ant; I used the 1.7.0 binairies (http://archive.apache.org/dist/ant/binaries/) as suggested. I unpackaged the .gz and put that entire folder in 'usr/local'. This seemed like the right place, don't know if it is, or if there even is such a thing, as long as you remember the path? - vanilla Flash Builder 4.6 - Open Source Flex SDK. I downloaded it from http://opensource.adobe.com/wiki/display/flexsdk/Download+Flex+4.6 and unpackaged it to the 'Applications/Adobe Flash Builder 4.6/sdks' folder. I gave it the new (temporary, I'm sure) name '4.6.5.0001'. Seems like any name will do, as long as you remember the path for use later on. - copy "flexTasks.JAR" from 'Applications/Flash Builder 4.6/sdks/4.6.5.0001/ant/lib' to '/usr/local/apache-ant-1.7.0/libs' On to the configuration: - environment variables go into this file: /etc/bashrc I added this block: # Flex SDK build variables # Java export JAVA_HOME=$(/usr/libexec/java_home) # Ant export ANT_HOME=/usr/local/apache-ant-1.7.0 export ANT_OPTS="-Xmx1024m" export PATH=${PATH}:${ANT_HOME}/bin - PATH variables are in this file: /etc/paths I added this block: # bin directory of Java /Library/Java/home/bin # bin directory of Ant /usr/local/ant/bin # bin directory of Flex SDK /Applications/Adobe Flash Builder/sdks/4.6.5.0001/bin - empty the 'Applications/Flash Builder 4.6/sdks/4.6.5.0001/frameworks' folder Get the source: - grab a working copy of the 'https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/incubator/flex/trunk/frameworks' repo and put it in your local (just emptied) 'frameworks' folder. Now for the fun part: - open Terminal, ls to the 'Applications/Flash Builder 4.6/sdks/4.6.5.0001/frameworks' folder and enter the following command: "ant -f build_framework.xml". This will download some third party code (this takes a couple of minutes) and then builds the SDK. When done, you see the lovely words "BUILD SUCCESSFUL". I went into the Flash Builder preferences and added the new SDK, create a new Web Project, added a Label to Main.mxml ("Hello world" :-P) and tried to run it. This failed. Turns out that at the date of writing, some build configuration hasn't been fine tuned, so you need one last step: rename 'Applications/Flash Builder 4.6/sdks/4.6.5.0001/frameworks/libs/player/11.0' to 'Applications/Flash Builder 4.6/sdks/4.6.5.0001/frameworks/libs/player/11.1' (yes, from 11.0 to 11.1, in short). Tried to run it and voila! Bullseye! We have liftoff! HTH, and good luck! Question: is it usual and useful to build the SDK directly into the Flash Builder application (under 'sdks') directory? It seems to me like a handy thing to do: when you build, you can use it straight away... Erik -- Ix Multimedia Software Jan Luykenstraat 27 3521 VB Utrecht T. 06-51952295 I. www.ixsoftware.nl
