From the doc linked to: "Compiler API can be added to answer the question of what additional RSLs are needed if a given RSL is loaded."
Seems like the expectation was that additional compiler args to mxmlc might someday influence rsl dependencies. On Apr 9, 2012, at 6:11 AM, Darrell Loverin <dlove...@adobe.com> wrote: > See the SWC Dependencies section of this spec: > http://opensource.adobe.com/wiki/display/flexsdk/Linking+RSLs+by+Default > > There are a couple of blogs articles that discuss swcdepends: > > http://gauravj.com/blog/2009/07/finding-swc-dependencies/ > http://blogs.adobe.com/dloverin/2010/01/monkey_patching_the_spark_button.html > > > The swcdepends tool accepts all the options of mxmlc to make it easy to run > without getting errors that certain command line options are not available. > The mxmlc options that don't provide swcs to the compiler are ignored. > > > -Darrell > > -----Original Message----- > From: Left Right [mailto:olegsivo...@gmail.com] > Sent: Monday, April 09, 2012 4:59 AM > To: flex-dev@incubator.apache.org > Subject: What does swcdepends do? > > Hi, > > I'm trying to write some conscious description of utilities inside SDK. I > never used swcdepends before. There is *some* command line documentation, but > no explanation of what to do with the program, and I can't understand from > the options what the program does. Can anyone provide an insight to this? > What I saw it do: > - once you run it w/o arguments it (probably) looks at the SDK path and > prints some information about SWCs found in the SDK, which looks like this: > > /library/examined.swc > /library/containing/classes/examined/library/references.swc > > I'm absolutely clueless about how it discovers where is the library that > contains referenced classes and what happens if there are two (this is not a > setting inside SWC). > It also has about 30 command line options, which sound strange in the given > context, such as for example: > -compiler.enable-runtime-design-layers > or > -use-direct-blit > etc... > > If I had to make a guess, this utility may be used when generating RSLs for > framework projects - but what does it really do? > > Best. > > Oleg
