I do all my work on Windows 7 and have never tried building Falcon or running its tests on a Mac. Is there anyone who has successfully done it yet on a Mac?
- Gordon -----Original Message----- From: Erik de Bruin [mailto:e...@ixsoftware.nl] Sent: Tuesday, November 20, 2012 8:35 AM To: flex-dev@incubator.apache.org Subject: Re: Falcon compiler(.tests) building Well, at least I know I'm not crazy, since you see the same failures ;-) I'll wait for Gordon and meanwhile do a bit of the new website. EdB On Tue, Nov 20, 2012 at 5:15 PM, Carol Frampton <cfram...@adobe.com> wrote: > Erik, > > I sent just email to Gordon and got back an "out of office" until > Monday email so you'll either have to wait or debug it. > > Carol > > On 11/20/12 7 :17AM, "Erik de Bruin" <e...@ixsoftware.nl> wrote: > >>Just guessing now, but: the MXML is read from a file in the 'temp' >>dir, right? If I put a breakpoint somewhere, I can see those files are >>created and the contents that I can see seem to be correct. But what >>about the contents that are not immediately visible? There was a lot >>to do about line endings and such on the listŠ might this be affected >>by something like that? >> >>EdB >> >> >> >>On Tue, Nov 20, 2012 at 1:09 PM, Michael Schmalle >><apa...@teotigraphix.com> wrote: >>> I did exactly what you now tried; checkout the whole Apache project, >>>build framework and build compiler. >>> >>> The only difference I see here is you are on OSX, but I think Carol >>>is to. >>> >>> I just ran my tests from the compiler.tests/build.xml and all passed. >>> >>> Unfortunately, without sitting next to you and looking, I have no >>>idea what is going wrong. I bet it is something small and ridiculous >>>though. >>> >>> >>> Mike >>> >>> Quoting Erik de Bruin <e...@ixsoftware.nl>: >>> >>>> Latest news: >>>> >>>> - I got myself a new working copy of the entire Flex SVN repo, so I >>>>don't need to mess with paths etc. anymore. >>>> - I did a build of the SDK in 'branches/develop' without problems. >>>> - I did a build of the Falcon compiler ('ant main' in trunk) and >>>>got the EXACT SAME results as before, i.e. jUnit test fail and I >>>>get some warnings! >>>> - switching from ant 1.8 to 1.7.1 made the "includeantruntime" >>>>warning go away >>>> - the build file in 'compiler' is looking for 'flexTasks.jar' in >>>>the "ant/lib" directory of the SDK which, on my machine at least, >>>>does not exist; changing all references to "ant/lib" to "lib" (3x), >>>>where that jar does exist, makes the last warning go away; >>>> - I created a JIRA ticket [1] and attached the output of 'ant main' >>>> (after an 'ant wipe') to it. >>>> >>>> Now, if these tests need to pass on my system before I can start >>>> contributing, I need some input. If solving the reason why they >>>> fail is some sort of initiation rite, it's going to take me a bit >>>> more time to get into the 'inner circle' ;-) >>>> >>>> EdB >>>> >>>> 1: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/FLEX-33271 >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> On Mon, Nov 19, 2012 at 6:08 PM, Erik de Bruin <e...@ixsoftware.nl> >>>>wrote: >>>>> >>>>> Ok, >>>>> >>>>> I did a super-clean and main on the SDK, was successful. >>>>> >>>>> Did a wipe and main on the compiler and compiler.tests, no luck. >>>>> >>>>> I've piped the results of the compiler main to a text file. If >>>>> anyone is interested, I'll create a JIRA ticket and attache that file to >>>>> it. >>>>> >>>>> EdB >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> On Mon, Nov 19, 2012 at 5:02 PM, Erik de Bruin >>>>> <e...@ixsoftware.nl> >>>>> wrote: >>>>>> >>>>>> Thank you! I already figured out the first 3, but not the >>>>>> 'sdk.branch', good suggestion. >>>>>> >>>>>> EdB >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> On Mon, Nov 19, 2012 at 4:53 PM, Carol Frampton >>>>>> <cfram...@adobe.com> >>>>>> wrote: >>>>>>> >>>>>>> >>>>>>> >>>>>>> On 11/18/12 12 :55PM, "Erik de Bruin" <e...@ixsoftware.nl> wrote: >>>>>>> >>>>>>>> Hi, >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> I have followed the various instructions and was able to >>>>>>>>successfully build the Falcon compiler. Along the way I >>>>>>>>encountered several issues that are not yet documented (I'm on >>>>>>>>OS X 10.8): >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> - I needed to edit the 'build.xml' file on line 50, to point >>>>>>>>the 'sdk.branch' property to the correct location of the SDK on >>>>>>>>my system; >>>>>>>> - when trying to use the mxmlc on a project, I got 'permission >>>>>>>>denied'. Setting the executable bit on the file corrected that; >>>>>>> >>>>>>> >>>>>>> I'm running on OS X 10.7. If you follow the instructions in the >>>>>>>falcon/trunk/README you should not have to make any edits to >>>>>>>build.xml assuming your directory tree looks like it does in >>>>>>>svn. >>>>>>> >>>>>>> Before trying to build Falcon, you must: >>>>>>> >>>>>>> 1. Build the the "develop" branch of the SDK at >>>>>>> incubator/flex/sdk/branches/develop by doing 'ant main'. >>>>>>> See the README there for instructions. >>>>>>> >>>>>>> 2. Set the environment variables JAVA_HOME, ANT_HOME, and >>>>>>> PLAYERGLOBAL_HOME as when building the SDK. >>>>>>> >>>>>>> 3. Set the environment variable JFLEX_JAR to point to the JAR >>>>>>>file for JFlex 1.4.3. >>>>>>> >>>>>>> sdk.branch is set to <property name="sdk.branch" >>>>>>> value="${compiler}/../../../sdk/branches/develop"/>. If this is >>>>>>>not the case for you, rather than edit build.xml invoke it with >>>>>>>ant -Dsdk.branch=/path/to/sdk >>>>>>> >>>>>>> or add falcon/complier/local.properties and set sdk.branch in there. >>>>>>> >>>>>>> >>>>>>> >>>>>>> >>>>>>> Carol >>>>>>> >>>>>>> >>>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> -- >>>>>> Ix Multimedia Software >>>>>> >>>>>> Jan Luykenstraat 27 >>>>>> 3521 VB Utrecht >>>>>> >>>>>> T. 06-51952295 >>>>>> I. www.ixsoftware.nl >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> -- >>>>> Ix Multimedia Software >>>>> >>>>> Jan Luykenstraat 27 >>>>> 3521 VB Utrecht >>>>> >>>>> T. 06-51952295 >>>>> I. www.ixsoftware.nl >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> -- >>>> Ix Multimedia Software >>>> >>>> Jan Luykenstraat 27 >>>> 3521 VB Utrecht >>>> >>>> T. 06-51952295 >>>> I. www.ixsoftware.nl >>>> >>> >>> -- >>> Michael Schmalle - Teoti Graphix, LLC http://www.teotigraphix.com >>> http://blog.teotigraphix.com >>> >> >> >> >>-- >>Ix Multimedia Software >> >>Jan Luykenstraat 27 >>3521 VB Utrecht >> >>T. 06-51952295 >>I. www.ixsoftware.nl > -- Ix Multimedia Software Jan Luykenstraat 27 3521 VB Utrecht T. 06-51952295 I. www.ixsoftware.nl
