Comments on: Faster parallel MXMLC compilation using Ant

By: HC

HC — Thu, 20 Oct 2011 09:24:40 +0000

Nice Article!

Now, i can build multiple modules using script.
My problem is with custom component.
Some of my modules use custom component (created in same project).

At the time of build, i am getting following error.

[mxmlc] C:\FxProject\src\Module\Module1.mxml(9): Error: Definition components:comp1 could not be found.
[mxmlc] import components.comp1;

If anyone have idea, please suggest solution.

By: 5kn

5kn — Thu, 25 Aug 2011 13:05:33 +0000

Nevermind, missed that you had the parallel attribute on the for loop, though your use of sequential is still excessive. Once your in a sequential state, you stuck in until your finished.

By: 5kn

5kn — Thu, 25 Aug 2011 13:01:01 +0000

Not sure how you figure this to be running in parallel, and faster than a sequential build script. Probably worth checking how your code works beforehand or even glancing at the Ant documentation.

Your running everything in ‘sequential’ blocks which according to the Ant document runs each task one after another, what you want to use is ‘parallel’ which as the name suggestions runs things at the same time rather than in sequence. The way your using the ‘sequential’ task is pointless, Ant is going to run things in that order anyway since your never entering a parallel state. http://ant.apache.org/manual/Tasks/sequential.html

Would also be better to use the Ant tasks provided by the Flex SDK rather than calling the jars.

By: JustinG

JustinG — Fri, 03 Jun 2011 18:50:39 +0000

What exactly is a “module”? I’ve never seen that term used at all in the Flex development so far so I’m a little unsure of how to go about using this.

By: Nick Bilyk

Nick Bilyk — Sun, 29 Aug 2010 19:07:14 +0000

I think I figured it out –
you have to add:

So the compiler understands the ${flexlib} token.

By: Nick Bilyk

Nick Bilyk — Sun, 29 Aug 2010 18:54:07 +0000

Hi, I almost got the example working, however, I’m hitting a wall when it comes to the config.xml.

If I add this to the mxmlc options:

The ${flexlib} token to the configuration file is coming in incorrectly as “.” so no files using the token could be found. I can’t just set this to be absolute because the default flex config.xml has the incorrect token as well.

If you have any ideas, it would make me very happy :)

By: felix

felix — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 21:16:55 +0000

Hi Flo,

the properties and values depend on your project setup but for the simplified example above they could be:

 name="flex.sdk.dir" value="${basedir}/tools/flex-sdk"/>
 name="flex.source.dir" value="${basedir}/src/flex"/>
 name="flex.release.dir" value="${basedir}/web/swf"/>
 name="flex.modules" value="module1,module2,module3"/>

By: flo

flo — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 04:22:06 +0000

Hi,

could you post the properties section as well, please?

Thanx, flo;