The Ant script doesn't modify the source during compilation, so that
shouldn't be a problem. It does do some of the other things you
describe, though - it creates the directory structure it needs in
order to generate the binaries, and then (depending on the target you
run) assembles them into JAR files, but that's it. The source code
doesn't get touched.
Also, if you run the clean target, everything is restored to its
original state.
On Aug 4, 2009, at 6:10 PM, Scott Lanham wrote:
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.
