It kind of helps :-) The best way I can convey what I am looking for is to generally describe what I do with a c++ project I am involved in.
For the project I might have a directory called /devel/someProject that contains the source files. When using cmake to build the project I would create another directory called /devel/someProject_build. Initially it is just a blank directory. I change to this blank directory and type "cmake /devel/someProject". Cmake will fill the /devel/someProject_build directory with a structure that is required for the build, then I run "make" in that same directory and the binaries are created. So there is never any worry that the original source directory is modified during a build. Also when I run make in the build directory after the initial run it always picks up changes from /devel/someProject. What I would like to do with Pivot is have a SVN source directory that is never modified except for svn updates and a separate build directory that I can run ant in that my project uses. At the moment I copy the SVN sources across to a new location and run ant in the copy. Cheers, Scott. On Wed, 5 Aug 2009 07:46:48 am Greg Brown wrote: > I'm not sure what you mean by "fill" the directory. > > If you run "ant package", the build script will create a lib directory > containing all the JARs you need. For the tutorials, that includes: > > pivot-core-1.3-incubating.jar > pivot-web-1.3-incubating.jar > pivot-wtk-1.3-incubating.jar > pivot-wtk-1.3-incubating.terra.jar > > You can then put these files wherever you like. They just need to be > on your project's classpath. > > Does that help? > > On Aug 4, 2009, at 4:43 PM, Scott Lanham wrote: > > Yes I successfully built Pivot. > > > > What I want to do is go to a blank directory and somehow invoke ant > > to fill > > that directory rather than modifying the original project source. At > > the > > moment I am just doing a straight up copy of the whole project and > > running the > > build in the copy. > > > > On Tue, 4 Aug 2009 09:52:10 pm Greg Brown wrote: > >> How are you currently invoking Ant? Are you able to build the project > >> at all? > >> > >> On Aug 3, 2009, at 10:51 PM, Scott Lanham wrote: > >>> Hi, > >>> > >>> I am a complete novice when it comes to using ant. Is there a way I > >>> can tell > >>> ant to build Pivot in a different directory from the source? > >>> > >>> Thanks, > >>> > >>> Scott.
