Building Alfresco from Source

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rporter

I've been trying to set this up throughout the day, and the build continues to fail.

I'm trying to follow the Alfresco Developer Guide to set up my development environment in Windows XP.  I created a folder c:\alf and checked out the source via svn.  And I set TOMCAT_HOME to where I extracted tomcat c:\servers\tomcat.  Then I ran "ant -f build.xml," and that works fine.  When I run "ant -f continuous.xml distribute," it complains that it can't find ALF-BINARIES\tomcat\apache-tomcat-6.0.18.zip.  So, I created that directory structure and put the zip in there.  Now when I run "ant -f continuous.xml distribute" it fails with

distribute-tomcat-windows:

BUILD FAILED
C:\alf\root\continuous.xml:290: C:\ALF-BINARIES\installer\win32 not found.

Total time: 1 minute 58 seconds
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Any ideas about this?  Thanks.

mumbo

Hi

    create a directory installer/win32 in ALF-BINARIES , that will resolve the current issue , but once you create the directories the build will be looking for swftools and Image Magick tools inside this win32 directory so you might have to copy those binaries here (checkout this likehttp://wiki.alfresco.com/wiki/Alfresco_on_Eclipse for the details related to swftools and Imagmagick.), to sum up the directory structure in ALF-BINARIES will be like

ALF-BINARIEs
  |-installer
        | –win32
               |—commands
                        |–bin (Here you would have to copy all the binaries related to swftools(build will be looking for pdf2swf.exe, etc..)
                        |–ImageMagick(Here you would have convert.exe)
  |-tomcat
        |–apache-tomcat-6.0.18.zip
        |–apache-tomcat-5.5.25-virtserver-alfresco-1.1.zip
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After creating this run the ant -f continuous.xml distribute ..it should be successful  (the build might take like ~20 -25 min to get completed).

Goodluck .