[osflash] Ant builds in Eclipse

[Tim Walling]

So if one were to go this route it looks like someone should write a 
task for swfmill also. That's the job that got me started on this.

Tim



Simon Wacker wrote:

> Oh, yeah, you are right, an example in form of a complete build.xml 
> would definitely be a good idea. If you download the as2lib 
> (http://www.as2lib.org) there is a build.xml included. This uses the 
> mtasc task I posted previously.
>
> <project name="As2lib - Open Source ActionScript 2.0 Library" 
> default="usage" basedir=".">
>
>  <property name="src.dir" location="src"/>
>  <property name="lib.dir" location="lib"/>
>
>  <taskdef name="mtasc" classname="org.as2lib.ant.Mtasc" classpath="ant"/>
>
>  <target name="usage">
>    <echo message=""/>
>    <echo 
> message="------------------------------------------------------"/>
>    <echo message="Among the available targets are:"/>
>    <echo message=""/>
>    <echo message="compile"/>
>    <echo 
> message="------------------------------------------------------"/>
>    <echo message=""/>
>  </target>
>
>  <target name="compile" description="compile source files">
>    <mtasc srcdir="${src.dir}/org/as2lib/data" split="yes">
>      <classpath path="${src.dir}"/>
>      <classpath path="${lib.dir}/alcon/classes"/>
>      <classpath path="${lib.dir}/ascb logging/classes"/>
>      <classpath path="${lib.dir}/debug panel"/>
>      <classpath path="${lib.dir}/flash debug tool/Flash"/>
>      <classpath path="${lib.dir}/flashout"/>
>      <classpath path="${lib.dir}/flex panel/src"/>
>      <classpath path="${lib.dir}/lb.log"/>
>    </mtasc>
>  </target>
>
> </project>
>
> It first defines the basic properties src.dir and lib.dir, and then a 
> new task, 'mtasc'. In the above case the task must be in the same 
> directory and in the package 'ant' (you may also omit classpath and 
> include the task directly in your global classpath etc.). The target 
> usage is arbitrary. ;) The target compile uses the previously defined 
> task. It compiles the source directory org/as2lib/data and any 
> sub-directories, and each class on its own (split).
> You may of course also create a swf with a main method. You can 
> therefore use the attributes 'swf' and 'main'. All attributes are 
> actually the same as in mtasc, except 'exclude' which is 'excl' in the 
> task. For a full list of this attributes you can take a look at the 
> task's docu.
>
> Greetings,
> Simon
>
> PS: I should open a page on osflash.
> -- 
> Simon Wacker
> www.simonwacker.com
> www.as2lib.org
> www.hq-heilbronn.de
> www.flik-flak.de
>
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Tim Walling" 
> <mail-osflash at timwalling.com>
> To: "Open Source Flash Mailing List" <osflash at osflash.org>
> Sent: Tuesday, June 07, 2005 4:40 PM
> Subject: Re: [osflash] Ant builds in Eclipse
>
>
>> Thanks. I actually noticed this when I was looking through the 
>> updated as2lib release last week but hadn't taken a stab at hooking 
>> it up.
>>
>> Not being that experienced yet with Ant, I'm guessing that the sample 
>> you provide in the class documentation would go into the build.xml 
>> file as an Ant task. Is that right? Maybe a sample build.xml file 
>> would be helpful for people just getting started with Ant.
>>
>> Tim
>>
>> Simon Wacker wrote:
>>
>>> I have also created Ant support for MTASC a month ago. I made a new 
>>> task out of it. I think of this task approach to be more natural to 
>>> use than doing everything with the executable task.
>>> You may wanna have a look; it is included in this mail. The usage is 
>>> explained in the class docu (see Mtasc.java).
>>>
>>> Greetings,
>>> Simon
>>> -- 
>>> Simon Wacker
>>> www.simonwacker.com
>>> www.as2lib.org
>>> www.hq-heilbronn.de
>>> www.flik-flak.de
>>>
>>> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Tim Walling" 
>>> <mail-osflash at timwalling.com>
>>> To: <osflash at osflash.org>
>>> Sent: Tuesday, June 07, 2005 7:31 AM
>>> Subject: [osflash] Ant builds in Eclipse
>>>
>>>
>>>> Finally took a stab at putting together a build file for Ant so I 
>>>> could publish my library with swfmill. I decided to take it a step 
>>>> further and include a compile of a project in mtasc using the 
>>>> library swf output from swfmill. I put up some more info here:
>>>>
>>>> http://www.timwalling.com/actionscript/22/ant-builds-with-fames/
>>>>
>>>> I included two build files in the zip. Basically one for a simple 
>>>> build using swfmill since I know some would rather just stick with 
>>>> Flashout for compiling and another one which compiles the whole 
>>>> package. I was curious to see what I could do with Ant. Please feel 
>>>> free to modify and expand upon this. I haven't used Ant much and 
>>>> I'd be interested in other people's input.
>>>>
>>>> Tim
>>>>
>>>>
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>
><project name="As2lib - Open Source ActionScript 2.0 Library" default="usage" basedir=".">
>  
>  <property name="src.dir" location="src"/>
>  <property name="lib.dir" location="lib"/>
>  
>  <taskdef name="mtasc" classname="org.as2lib.ant.Mtasc" classpath="ant"/>
>  
>  <target name="usage">
>    <echo message=""/>
>    <echo message="------------------------------------------------------"/>
>    <echo message="Among the available targets are:"/>
>    <echo message=""/>
>    <echo message="compile"/>
>    <echo message="------------------------------------------------------"/>
>    <echo message=""/>
>  </target>
>  
>  <target name="compile" description="compile source files">
>    <mtasc srcdir="${src.dir}/org/as2lib/data" split="yes">
>      <classpath path="${src.dir}"/>
>      <classpath path="${lib.dir}/alcon/classes"/>
>      <classpath path="${lib.dir}/ascb logging/classes"/>
>      <classpath path="${lib.dir}/debug panel"/>
>      <classpath path="${lib.dir}/flash debug tool/Flash"/>
>      <classpath path="${lib.dir}/flashout"/>
>      <classpath path="${lib.dir}/flex panel/src"/>
>      <classpath path="${lib.dir}/lb.log"/>
>    </mtasc>
>  </target>
>  
></project>
>
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