I should note that on my main development machine I build openjfx
using the latest gradle release - 2.4 I think. As far as I can see
there are no issues with this.
-- Jonathan
Sent from a touch device. Please excuse my brevity.
On 28 May 2015 05:21:49 GMT+12:00, Kevin Rushforth
<kevin.rushfo...@oracle.com> wrote:
Sven Reimers wrote:
So, is this a call for community and Gradle experts please
helps us? We are able (and want) to upgrade to a newer gradle
version?
Not for FX 8u. We will upgrade FX 9 to a newer gradle (e.g., .2.3 or
later). See:
https://javafx-jira.kenai.com/browse/RT-40256
-- Kevin
We want to share the whole pile of dirty gradle scripts to get
you started? Sounds interesting to me... -Sven Am 27.05.2015
18:48 schrieb "David Hill" <david.h...@oracle.com>:
On 5/27/15, 12:08 PM, Scott Palmer wrote:
On May 27, 2015, at 10:04 AM, David
Hill<david.h...@oracle.com> wrote:
On 5/24/15, 10:56 AM, Scott Palmer wrote:
Where can I find the instructions for building
Scene Builder from source? I ran Ant in the
apps/scenebuilder folder and it produced
SceneBuilderApp.jar in the
'SceneBuilderApp/dist' folder. But where's the
rest of it? It looks like the javapackager
part does run automatically, so I don't have a
native executable with a nice icon and all
those finishing touches that make it a "real"
app.
I am in the process of adding a "run" command to
the ant script. We do not have plans at the moment
to add a packaging step.
What happened to the original packaging step? The
Oracle download is a packaged app, was it a manual
step or something? I can’t even find the application
icon in the source. Our internal build has 2 parts -
OpenJFX and the "closed" stuff. The
"closed" stuff has a lot of legacy steps that we have not
had the time or inclination to move to the OpenJFX side.
(after all, working with a complex chunk of delicate
gradle/ant code for a long time tends to make your eyes
bleed). But occasionally we get some motivation and we
move another bit of functionality over. I did ask our
packager guy if he could sketch out how to do this
standalone, so it might happen.
I did notice the build output print a
"jfx-deployment:" step, but I guess
that is something else. I haven't used Ant in
years, so I'm a little rusty. I was actually
surprised that there wasn't a Gradle script in
the apps/SceneBuilder folder. I thought
perhaps the apps are just using the default
NetBeans project format. I then noticed when
loading the project in NetBeans that I didn't
get the little "FX" decal on the coffee cup
icon, so it isn't a NetBean "JavaFX" project.
When I added in the building of the apps in the
overall tree, I was constrained by several things
that gradle does not (or did not) play nicely
with. We wanted to treat most of the items as
independent sub projects, and at least some of
them have ant scripts that needed to be included
in the samples bundles. To shorten the story,
after a long while of tinkering, I found that for
our purposes, ant worked better for us. Gradle
imports the ant projects, and allows us to call
into them.
Fair enough, there’s only so much tinkering one can
take, I’ve been through a fair bit of Gradle tinkering
myself. (My hope is that one day OpenJDK + OpenJFX
will build simply with ‘grade build', using Gradle’s
support for native builds. Especially on Windows where
it would simplify things a lot if you can avoid
dependencies on Cygwin or MinGW. Gradle’s native
support is still incubating so it is a bit early to go
there, but I’ve used it recently for some Java +JNI
projects on Linux, Mac, and Windows (with Visual
Studio, not GCC) and it actually worked quite well.)
We switched to gradle early on after a long time with a
big pile'o ant scripts. Major rework for that. We were
limited by the gradle versions we could get at the time.
Some choices like what we could do in the apps dir were
limited by that. More major rework when we moved as much
as we could to OpenJFX. Now, if we had a dedicated build
engineer we might be able to rebuild our current gradle to
use the new features. But as we only have part time on
about 3 guys willing to dive into that build mess that
each have a huge pile 'o bugs... :-) -- David
Hill<david.h...@oracle.com> Java Embedded Development "A
man's feet should be planted in his country, but his eyes
should survey the world." -- George Santayana (1863 - 1952)
